Free tool
Symptom checker
Pick a symptom and answer a couple of questions to get the most likely cause and a step-by-step fix.
What's the symptom?
Pick the one that best describes what you're seeing.
This helps narrow down the cause.
How does the soil feel?
Push a finger about 1–2 inches (a few cm) into the soil before answering.
Any recent changes?
Select all that apply. This helps us pinpoint the trigger.
Most likely cause
Why this happens
How to fix it
What helps here
Prevention tips
How it works
What the tool does
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You pick one of 12 symptoms, such as yellow leaves, brown tips, drooping, sticky leaves or tiny flies.
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Depending on the symptom, it asks up to three follow-up questions: where on the plant it shows, how wet the soil is, and what changed recently.
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A fixed set of rules matches your answers to the most likely cause and shows an explanation with the steps to fix it. Everything runs in your browser.
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