I have 5 plants in my verandah however one of them had so much aphids clustering around the growing points where new buds are shooting. The first picture shows how bad it was. I could use my fingers but the young buds are so fragile that I did not wish to give any damage to […]

It is as if someone did craftwork with the leaves, not eating entire leaves which is often observed when caterpillars damage the leaves. Let’s find out! (it is in the lower part of the page)

If you are growing the curry leaf plants in veranda, because of less chances of having natural enemies around, once you have worms to damage the leaves, you may experience pretty hard damage by them. I found this as I was watering today. Because of how the leaves have been damaged, I was almost sure […]

During winter time, my curry leaf plant #3 and #4 are in green house. The plant #3 is not having vivid green color on the leaves so I went to check them. There they are, scale insects. I saw big drop of sticky honey dew of the scale insects. They rapidly expands their population under […]

I recently posted about my pruning and new buds shooting, then I realized that there are more than a few ants moving up and down on the stem! I should immediately doubt that there are good risk of aphids or scale insects discharging honey dew, and ants come to pick them up as their food. […]

During late autumn through winter, sun light comes into rooms with lower angle compared to warmer seasons. Hold the leaves or sprigs or maybe even entire plant if it is possible, to the sun. Then observe shadows appear on the leaves carefully. Scale insects, aphids and spider mites on the back of the leaves appear […]

During winter time, if you are growing your curry leaf plant inside of the house, you need to check the plant every day preferably for the spider mites. The spider mites breed so fast in the dry and warm environment, especially where no natural enemies are around. They make spider web like nest around the […]

Fluffy things were found on my curry leaf plant about a week ago, and they are identified as woolly aphids. I removed the stuff with my fingers but the situation is not improved since then. Rather, I found a few more spots with the insects. My plant No.1 even had sooty mold which appears to […]

I was checking my 9 yr old plant (my first curry leaf), and realized that grey fluffy things are on the sprigs and also top of the growing points. There were glossy honey dew similar to that of scale insects and aphids. I was not sure what could be the key words to search. Anyhow, […]

If the curry leaf plant is grown outside, it may be OK, but if you are keeping the plant where air is dry due to air conditioning, then you should also pay attention to the spider mite fine web for breeding. Needless to say this is one of the most important points to pay your […]