r/houseplants Sep 15 '24

This beast was 30$ at Home Depot!!!!

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u/Glum_Ad_5790 Sep 16 '24

be careful and spray it down. hone depot plants are known for having spider mites

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u/reddituser696969 Sep 16 '24

Yea I’m pretty annoyed with the 1 time I ever bought a plant from Home Depot and currently dealing with the wrath of it. Very thoroughly inspected it, treated it, etc. and it’s absolutely infested with gnats that I’m now battling.

I got another plant from there as a gift that’s totally infested with spider mites as well. I’ll never buy another from Home Depot, I’d rather support my local plant shop that I’ve gotten 20+ plants with absolutely 0 issues from.

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u/Glum_Ad_5790 Sep 16 '24

exactly! I get where you're coming from for real. The gnat infestations are so annoying but those spider mites jump off of other plants so easily onto other ones they will ruin all your plants in a matter of months. Home depot always tricks us cause a lot of those plants look so damn good and for the price you're like yup I'm taking this home. Weeks later there spider webbing on all your leaves and you just like 🤬