Mid-Atlantic Gardening: FIRST FLOWERS SPRING!!! Next time it might be summer!, 2 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Need some input on my beautiful Hibiscus I bought.

As I have posted before--it had White Flies. I have sprayed twice now
with the water/alcohol/dish soap mix. Seemed to work.
However--many of the leaves had serious mite damage on the undersides.

Now--there is an ongoing yellowing of leaves--which I remove.
This is making the plant look "leggy"...They may re-grow--I do not know.

What, in your opinions, is causing this yellowing??? It is still blooming OK.
The leaf damage is visible on all the leaves' backs.

I want to hang on to this Hibiscus for next year--don't know HOW yet..
but will figure something out. Can these go totally dormant for the winter
and come back in the following summer???

1--Blooming OK before
2--Showing general leaf yellowing
3--Yellow leaves--closer...
4--The damaged leaves a while back--when I first realized the problem.

Since ALL the leaves show this mite damage--I wonder if ALL the leaves will yellow out?

Maybe I should post this on the Hibiscus (Tropicals??) Forum...??

Thanks--Gita