I feel so bad for my plants. Construction is going on and I can't leave my plants on the balcony or have my window open to let in a good breeze.

I came home to find my cherry tree spider mites were in full swing again (despite 3 shower rinsing) and a lot of leaves were off. Even my orange tree lost leaves!

My petunias too...

So I called the company and just mentioned I have to keep my plants outside not even mentioning how the sunlight is because my apartment gets a lot less...

Hopefully they will pull through...

They do make artificial lights for people who want to raise healthy house plants and just do not have enough sun light. A shower will not really take care of spider mites. There are many sprays made for controlling them. Gene

gasrocks said:They do make artificial lights for people who want to raise healthy house plants and just do not have enough sun light. A shower will not really take care of spider mites. There are many sprays made for controlling them. Gene

Yea I just can't afford one of them at the moment.

I used the water to knock some of them off. And soap spray. And I took off super infected leaves. I also sprayed some of them today. Hopefully it gets better but my rose is probably on its last leg. Major typhoon yesterday probably didn't help.

One of the oranges dropped off but if the yellow coloring is anything to go by it means that the others might drop too. Overall I'm still trying my best. Hopefully it works.

Take them outside at least at night time. They need fresh air and light to recover. I had some renovations going on around the house with maxima-aluminum so I had to move my plants away for a while and I even took some of them to my parent's house. Other than shower rinsing and a breeze as often as possible I don't know what you could do. An artificial light it's indeed very expensive but it's worth the money in such cases. I hope your plants recover shortly and they will not suffer from these constructions.

Sorry AlexWilliams but I disagree, I think that moving them in and out will only stress them more Put a small fan on them for a little breeze.

Artificial lights don't have to be all that expensive. My biggest setup cost me about $60 and a couple hours to build. It covers 5ft x 3ft with direct light and another 2-3ft on all sides of indirect, dimmer light for those plants that are lower light tolerant.

It was a DIY setup made with 1" PVC pipe and appropriate fittings, a 1" x 6ft wooden dowel, some chain, and 2 household quality 4ft fluorescent strip lights that take 2 bulbs each. I made it so that I could make it stand on the floor and light a tabletop, or I could shorten the legs to sit on the tabletop.

This thing is bright enough to get some beautiful stress coloration from my succulents and my golden pothos was really golden after a couple months.

After making this setup, I don't think I'll ever buy a pre-made commercial "grow light".

If you have floor lamps or any other type of light, you can put fluorescent or LED daylight bulbs in them, 5000 to 6500 light temperature (color), and point the naked bulbs at your plants. Use at least 100 or 150 watt equivalent bulbs and don't place the bulbs too far away from your plants. That should supplement the light they are missing until you can put them back in their usual spots.

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