String of Bananas: Chop & Prop

After finding some webbing (spider mites) on the top part of my string of bananas 😭😭😭, I took drastic measures (outside of treating it & hosing the plant off, etc.) In combination with the damage the bugs caused, this baby was really on the struggle bus. The top just looked like crap, with dead pieces and the strands were becoming rather stringy.

I chopped off some healthy strands, to start propagating, as a backup plan, in case the mom plant didn’t recover fully. Then after it seemed like the bugs were in the rear view , I began picking out the dead pieces and trying to make the plant look healthier. (I also wanted to inspect him to make sure there was no new webbing or damage). As I was picking it apart... I decided to say F it.. (which is about the time I decided you guys should share in the anxiety I’m having about my actions right now and started video taping 🤣😅)

I’m hoping that in the long run this plant will thrive & look better than it would have before, since I pulled off all the parts that looked like crap. Some of the other pieces I put back in with the roots in tact while the more stringy pieces I cut up and propagated then back into the same pot. Also hoping fresh soil will help make sure the bugs are really gone !

Once the propagations are rooted and this plant is on the rebound, I’ll probably combine the two pots back together to make him super full once again!
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Ps. The neem oil bottle is not actually Neem oil (anymore) that i was cleaning the pot with. It was a mixture of soap and rubbing alcohol and water to make sure there was no bugs in the pot. And the gloves and plastic bag were only used to make sure if it did have spider mites Still, I wasn’t accidentally spreading them to other plants! And the soil mixture was my aroid mixture with some additional perlite added. (Guys, I’m really lazy. I didn’t want to make a special one for this guy 🤣) my aroid soil mix is on PlantedinPots.com and I put an extra cup full of perlite in my bin and scooped from there!

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