TI Plants with Shredded Leaves

[tonybrowning]

I've propagated TI plants twice now. They eventually seem to get these wired shredded leaves.


Disease, bug or is it just how these plants live?

 

[oneeye]

Looks like pest damage to me. Take a magnifier and get a real good close up and see if you have bugs. Looking in the photos I see a hole in the ground that could be the home of a pest.

 

[tonybrowning]

HI, thanks.

I think a rat made and lives in that hole (Now I just moved the plant near that hole a day ago).

Someone said it could be snail damage, what you think?

I'll find a magnifying glass.

 

[Marck]

Chewing/rasping damage by some type of insect or slugs/snails is a likely possibility. Visit your Ti Plants (Cordyline fruticosa) an hour or so after sunset with a flashlight in the hope of finding and identifying the pest responsible.