🌺 How to get rid of pests on Hibiscus?

Hibiscus flowers are beautiful but the plants are also... tasty! So they can face a variety of pests, including:

· Aphids: small insects cluster on new growth, sucking sap from the plant and causing distortion or yellowing of leaves.
· Whiteflies: look like tiny moths and can be found on the undersides of leaves, sucking plant juices.
· Spider Mites: can form webs on the undersides of leaves and cause discoloration and stippling.
· Thrips: slender insects that feed on flower buds and young leaves, causing them to become distorted and discolored.
· Scales: small, immobile bumps on stems and leaves, sucking sap and weakening the plant.

🧯 Treatment methods:

1️⃣ Pruning: Remove heavily infested parts of the plant and dispose of them properly to prevent the spread of pests.
2️⃣ Natural Predators: Introduce beneficial insects like ladybugs, lacewings, or wasps, which prey on common garden pests.
3️⃣ Horticultural Oils: Neem oil or insecticidal soap can be effective against soft-bodied pests like aphids, mealybugs, and spider mites. Sunshine Nobug is a perfect organic solution that contains oil and soap.
4️⃣ Water Spray: Regularly spraying your hibiscus with a strong stream of water can help dislodge pests like aphids and whiteflies from the plant.
5️⃣ Systemic Insecticides: These are chemicals absorbed by the plant, making it toxic to insects feeding on it. However, use them cautiously and follow the instructions to minimize harm to beneficial insects and the environment.

❗️Always monitor your hibiscus plants closely for signs of pest infestation, and take prompt action to prevent damage. Regular maintenance, such as proper watering and fertilizing, can also help keep plants healthy and more resistant to pests 🪰🕷🐛

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👾 How to get rid of a bad luck with the Garlic Vine?

🟣 Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea) is one of the most wanted flowering tropical vines.

🟣 When in full bloom, it looks like a cascade of blue-purple over a fence or trellis.

🟣 The fun part is, crushed leaves smell like garlic, which will keep away the vampires and bad luck! 🧛

🟣 Deep lavender flowers with white throat fading to a paler lavender within a few days, and you can see all three colors on the plant at the same time.

🟣 Garlic vine has moderate growth rate and can stay compact in a pot as a specimen, and even can be grown as a house plant.

📚 Garlic vine: how to get rid of bad luck

🎥 Video: Garlic vine keeps away the vampires.

🛒 Get rid of bad luck by getting the Garlic Vine

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❓How to grow a happy Adenium.

What you need for successful growing Adeniums:

1️⃣ A small pot with excellent drainage, size of root system.

2️⃣ Adenium soil mix. Use only well-drained soil. We suggest this Adenium mix.

3️⃣ Lots of light for heavy flowering. However, in super hot climates, they look healthier in filtered bright light.

4️⃣ Little water. Adeniums like a neutral to hard water. Acidic water tends to sour the soil too fast and may cause root rot.
Water plants preferably in the early morning, and allow them to drink up throughout the day.
Do not water again until soil dries on surface. Never allow your plants to sit in a saucer of water, but don't let them to dry out too often - this causes adeniums to go into early dormancy. Adeniums do not like both over-watering or drying-out.

5️⃣ Fertilizer. To make your plant develop a large swollen base/trunk, you'll need a good quality fertilizer. Sunshine Megaflor provides all the nutrients responsible for both Caudex growth and profuse flowering.

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🦎 Iguana attacking! your plants... How to keep iguanas away?

Q: I am having a hard time keeping iguanas eating everything! Any solution to keep them out?

Iguanas may become quite a problem in the garden. Our first suggestion would be - get a Duck as we have (Duck Dobi), she is so dominant and keeps any wild animals away from the property, including gators... and cats! They are scared of her! Dobi thinks she owns the place.

Here are a few other ways to control iguana problem in your backyard:

✅ Rid your lawn of dropped fruits. Iguanas love fruit. And they love low-hanging fruit or fruit that's easy to get to. If you have fruit trees, take the time to pick up your yard and dispose of any dropped fruit.

✅ Keep a lid on a garbage can. Put your garbage cans in a place they can't get to, or put a cinder block on your can lid.

✅ Do not leave pet food out. If you're putting a bowl of dog food or a plate of cat food out for your pets, you're inviting iguanas into your yard.

✅ Fill iguana holes. Iguanas like to dig. Wherever you see a hole, fill it. Stuff rocks into the hole first, then fill it with dirt and top it with sod. The iguana may return to dig again, but he won't dig through large rocks.

✅ Do NOT feed the iguanas. Don't be friendly with them, so they won't come back.

✅ Wire netting around plants. You can use wire netting or screens to prevent iguanas from entering plants and shrubs.

✅ Spray them with a hose. When you see an iguana in the yard, spray them with the hose. They also hate loud noises. Constant "harassment" can keep them from returning.

✅ Keep your yard clean. Excessive overgrowth or yard storage are great places for iguanas to hide.

✅ Do not leave food out, unattended. Iguanas are mainly herbivores but that doesn't mean they won't smell something good and want to eat it. They will TRY anything.

Hopefully these tips help keep your iguana problems to a minimum!

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❓ How to make plants green? Give them some Superfood!

🍀 Pale or yellow leaves? Green veins on yellow leaves? How to improve that look? Any special fertilizer?

✅ Leaf chlorosis or in other words "iron deficiency", especially during wet rainy weather - may be not harmful to the plant but bad for the looks.

✅ This deficiency can be corrected with microelement applications - Sunshine Superfood.

✅ Use Sunshine Superfood once a week to correct the iron deficiency that usually goes away within a month.

✅ Then maintain plants health with monthly applications.

✅ It is beneficial to use microelements in combination with regular applications of health boosting fertilizer such as Sunshine Robusta.

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🪴 How to grow Noni tree for fruit?

💊 The medicinal Noni tree (see our earlier post) is one of the most suitable fruit trees for potting culture. A 1-3 gallon size plant will flower and fruit for you within a year.

Noni's special features:

✅ flowers and fruits at young age, nearly year around.

✅ tolerates shade and grows large ornamental leaves in filtered light.

✅ suitable for indoor culture
- easy in cultivation, drought and water tolerant, not susceptible to insects.

✅ medicinal properties are endless and cannot be under-appreciated.

✅ This plant can be grown in any climate indoors, and will produce fruit for you under minimal care. Just provide warm frost-free conditions, as this tropical tree is very cold sensitive.

📚 Learn more: Morinda citrifolia - Noni. Life Sustaining Plant

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🐞 The truth about Ladybugs in your garden life

❓ Q: I have Ladybugs in my garden, I wonder if they are eating my plants? Do I need to get rid of them?

🐞 Ladybug (Harmonia axyridis) is, in fact, one of the best insects you can find in your garden, it is a natural predator that takes care of many bad bugs, including aphids

🐞 Keep Ladybugs happy and bring them to your garden!

🐞 Ladybugs actually are cultivated as natural pest control, and you can even buy them for your yard, instead of chemicals!

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1. Love life of Ladybugs
2. Ladybug larvae eating aphids.
3. One of our #PeopleCats, "innocent" Ladybug (a.k.a. Bug) is wondering who else she can bug next...

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