Ask-a-Dave's-Gardener: Indian Plant Problems!!!, 1 by navinpigeon

navinpigeon wrote:
Hey guys! I'm new here but I've been lurking around Dave's garden for a while, and I have a few questions.
There's white flies attacking my tulsi (indian holy basil) plants, it's cold outside so I can't take them outside and spray them off, but the white flies are terrible, how can I get them off indoors?

Another question is my neem plant is 6 months old, in a 3 gallon pot, and it's only 5 inches tall, is this the normal height for a neem plant that old?

I have what I hope and think is a Rudraksha tree but I am not sure, is the plant in the last pictures a rudraksha plant?

Pic 1 is the white flies on the basil plant
Pic 2-3 is the neem plant
Pic 4-5 is what I think is rudraksha

**UPDATE** I decided to use the white fly trap idea, and i am looking for the bonide insect granules for my Tulsi (Holy Basil)

The Neem was pretty much outside its whole life, and i just brought it in with the other plants. its right smack infront my huge sliding door which gives in a ton of sunlight. Neem is a dry soil plant (like aloe) that uses a little water, but still needs it to survive. The potting soil consists of compost, peatmoss and perlite (a ton).

This message was edited Nov 17, 2014 1:27 PM