What to Do When a Money Tree Gets Pests? A Detailed Guide to Pest Control Methods

The money tree is a beautiful plant with an auspicious meaning, and it is also one of the plants that flower lovers prefer to grow. However, if you do not care for it according to the money tree's cultivation methods, it will get pests and diseases, which will affect its ornamental value. So, what should you do when a money tree gets pests?

1. What to do when a money tree gets pests

The main pest of the money tree is scale insects. When a small number of live insects are found, wipe them off promptly with a damp cloth, or remove them with clear tape. You can also spray them during the peak hatching period of the nymphs with a 1500-fold dilution of 25% buprofezin wettable powder.

There is also a more effective method that keeps the money tree from being harmed by chemicals and drives the insects away: soak used cigarette butts in water, using thirty to forty cigarette butts per 1 jin of water. Spray the money tree with it twice a day, and any insect will be driven away.

2. Prevention and control of leaf spot disease on the money tree

In environments with high temperature, high humidity and poor ventilation, its leaves are prone to leaf spot disease.

Prevention and control methods: whether indoors or outdoors, ventilation and light transmission should be strengthened, and water should be prevented from standing on the leaf surface for a long time, so as to reduce the possibility of leaf spot disease. If a small number of diseased leaves are found, remove and burn them promptly, and regularly spray a 600-fold dilution of 50% carbendazim wettable powder, once every half month, for 3 to 4 times in a row. For household potted plants, for disease spots appearing on a small number of leaves of an individual plant, miconazole nitrate cream can be applied.