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Tiny brown spots coffee plant!

9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago

Hello everyone so I had my coffee for like 7-8 years without any problems. Last summer when I took it out on my balcony it even started flowering and I have some coffee now but when I brought it back inside cause of the winter after a month or so I noticed it has Mealy bugs. At first I tried to remove them by hand and by cleaning the leaves with moist napkins but it got pretty bad so I bought some bio stuff from local store which worked perfectly. The reason I'm talking about this is because while I had the bugs I had somewhat steady leaf drop and I thought that its because of them and the fact that the plant no longer receives a lot of sun light. When I dealt with the bugs tho the leaf drop remained and even sped up. Now its almost summer again but the leaves just drop constantly. When I inspect them they are dry but not brown some of them are kinda curled sideways and have tiny browns spots which are mostly noticeable on the bottom side of the leaf. I even have a leaf that is half dried dead half alive and well. There is also a brown like washed out color on the side of the leaves that have the spots and pretty much every leaf is exposed bottom part of the plant, top part, new ones, old leaves even the ones that are just popping out. Please help me out I've tried identifying the problem myself but I can't really find anything and I don't want my plant to die.





Comments (6)

  • 9 years ago

    no plant holds its leaves forever... there is always cyclical leaf loss ...


    can we have a pic of the whole ... to see how severe it is ...


    minor leaf damage... perhaps from the goo you put on.. or from putting it outdoors.. straight out into sun ... could have caused MINOR damage ... which you are now seeing the impact of ..


    always include where you are ... in this case.. so we can speculate how intense the sun is ...

    ken

  • 9 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    I'm from Bulgaria and yeah last year summer was pretty hot and unfortunately when I took it out I've made the mistake of putting it in a place where the sun was shining on it in lunch hours so a lot of leaves got burnt. It recovered tho and I got coffee beans so I don't think the problem was the sun also after it recovered leaves were fine until I got the bugs and then the tiny brown spots. Right now it's not outside because it's still not warm enough at nights.

    Here is a picture of the whole plant they are actually 5 plants because when I bought it I didn't bother removing the smaller ones so now I have 2 big plants which got coffee beans and 3 smaller ones that probably wont grow anymore because the pot is not big enough.

    You can even see some of the dried leaves that I'm going to remove later. It had twice as much leaves than it has now.

  • 9 years ago

    no plant holds its leaves forever ... they are usually shed in late winter ...


    yours may have had some additional stresses ... so perhaps the leaf loss is a bit higher than usual ...


    but frankly ... that plant looks great ... dont go trying to fix problems.. you may not have ...


    i bet by the time it leafs out ... it will look fine ...


    you are probably going to have pot issues in the next few years ... media does wear out .... at the link below.. the 3rd link is about propagation ... you may want to start some new cuttings ... and eventually get rid of this huge houseplant... that appears to be taking over the room ...


    ken


    https://www.google.com/search?q=coffee+plant&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=coffee+plant+propagation&*

  • 9 years ago

    Well the plant is pretty big that's true but I don't think its going to grow anymore and I've been taking care for it for so long I'm not just going to trash it unless it dies. So the brown spots don't mean anything? I thought it's some kind of fungus because the leafs dry out and die while they r still green!

  • 9 years ago

    but I don't think its going to grow anymore


    ==>>> why do you think that??? .. trees never really stop growing ...


    if they sunburned.. minimally .... when you you put it out in blistering sun ... they could have been superficially damaged .. and just now falling off... as the plant gets ready for this years growth ... pure speculation ...


    the point of propagating.. is to grow a new piece of the same plant ... which you can live with.. for another long time ... this is how i rejuvenate a plant ... a young new plant with new vigor ... but the same plant i have always had ... this often is done .. for me anyway .. when i can not pot up the old plant due to size ...


    good luck ...


    ken



  • 9 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Ok thank you for the information I'll leave it as it is and hopefully when I take it out in a week or so everything will be fine!