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If it is thrips or some variety of mite they also live in the soil and they will infest everything. Make a drench out of the neem and water all of your plants from the top down to kill the eggs. Also spray all of your plants with spinosad. If you bought seeds online from Asia what you have is called flowering okra (Sunset Hibiscus), Asains eat just about everything off of the plant. It is a vine type plant that will get about 6 ft. tall and 3 or 4 ft wide. It isn't like regular okra where you eat the pods. The pods stay very small. Get rid of that weed and feed garbage. It's NPK is miniscule at best and the herbicides may damage your plant. The insecticide in the stuff is a pyrethroid. It only kills by contact and has no residual effect nor does it kill eggs. I see no signs of over or underwatering. This is a zone 8-12 plant and will not tolerate cold weather at all. Please update your profile and let all of us know your location and hardiness zoneI too thought the plants looked odd. They are from seeds I ordered from the WISH app. LOL!! Many came from Asian countries and some from the Netherlands. All the seeds looked like hibiscus seeds but I'm sure many seeds look alike. Itll be interesting to see if they flower and what they grow out to look like
I do have neem oil and have used it from time to time in the past. I dont think my plants are growing as fast and vigorously as they should be and I've struggled with finding the problem in the past. Before I saw your post recommending the neem oil I had already sprayed the plants that have any honeydew with the product in the pic. Should I now spray with neem oil or just let them be for a while. In that grow tent I also have a few Rose's and many hardy hibiscus growing out from seeds as well. Should I treat all the plants in the tent?? The hardy hibiscus arent doing great either but they have no honeydew or visible parasites. I thought maybe the plants werent doing well because I was overwatering.
Just mix 2 oz. of neem in a gallon of water and pour it all around the base of the plant and to the edge of the pot.
It is either thrips or improper watering. Thrips usually go for blooms and that is the type of damage they do to them. Spinosad comes in a lot of brand names. Captain Jacks, Green Light, Monterrey etc. Just look at the ingredients and make sure spinosad is the active ingredient. Click on your name in the dark green line, go to account details and fill in the boxes.
Once a week until no trace of insects or damage is seen
I don't think they are spider mites but whatever they are you treat them the same way. Drench and Spray. And they will be on every plant your have, even if you can't see them.
