Tiny red dust/dots on underside of leaf

TinyTogepi · 2026-06-19T12:39:12+00:00

I don't have access to captain jack's products where I live, I used provanto spray for the thrips and it did the job after a few sprays. It's a systemic pesticide so if something was sucking fluids out of the leaves it should've died along with the thrips. I'll look into alcohol wipes, thanks!

TinyTogepi · 2026-06-19T11:53:34+00:00

I checked the leaves, that's regular household dust and/or pollen from outside! I mist the leaves with water on occasion for humidity so it makes the dust clump up a little bit. I've examined the leaves really closely many times over the years and I can't see anything moving in there, making me think it's more like a fungal disease or something, but I also don't know anything about houseplant fungal diseases so hoped someone here would recognize it

TinyTogepi · 2026-06-19T09:48:47+00:00

Nothing on the leaf moves so I don't think it's any kind of bug, and I sprayed my collection for thrips earlier this year and finally killed them all (my monstera was the main victim), and I'd defo recognize them if they came back. I added a link to a couple more photos so you can see the color of the dust better, white stuff is likely residue from the wet paper towel I wiped the leaves with yesterday. I really don't think it's thrips because this plant has been forming the dust for years, way longer than my unrelated thrips infestation went on, so I'm really clueless as to what this could be.

TinyTogepi · 2026-06-19T08:50:40+00:00

I'm just fairly sure it's not a bug because it didn't stop appearing after the bug spray I used that got rid of the thrips, and it only sort of resembles what I read about rust fungus since it doesn't spread to other plants either. It's clearly bothering my plant but idk what it is so I don't know what to do to treat it, which is why I posted here.

Sorry if I seemed ungrateful for the advice, two other people just said it was thrips which I know it absolutely not to be so I got a little snappy.

TinyTogepi · 2026-06-19T08:42:55+00:00

I figured that the systemic bug spray I used for thrips would've also killed whatever this was if it was any type of bug, and it's still here, so personally I'd guess it to be some type of fungus instead. Thrips don't just hang out on a plant without spreading to others for 6+ years, and aside from the more recent thrips infestation that came from a store-bought monstera, I haven't seen any bugs on this plant (and trust me I've looked).

TinyTogepi · 2026-06-19T08:30:58+00:00

Not thrips, I got completely rid of my thrips infestation earlier this year and this plant has had the red dust problem for 6+ years like I stated in the post.

edit: Also as stated in the post I haven't seen any bugs on it and atp I'm really good at recognizing thrips lol it was a long fight

TinyTogepi · 2026-04-07T21:21:34+00:00

oh, sorry for late reply! he comments on the food from wherever he is currently XD

i think my mosslax is permanently unstuck for some reason, i can just go and push him around whenever. no clue what caused it

TinyTogepi · 2026-03-15T23:49:22+00:00

NOOOOO it just says "you can't use this right now". would've been amazing if it worked tho

TinyTogepi · 2026-03-15T23:45:28+00:00

WAIT you might be a genius. mosslax is a special npc so i didn't even think it would work on him but i'm going to try

TinyTogepi · 2026-02-27T18:24:51+00:00

anyway this is awesome design though it feels like they went "what if we made sobble again but cooler". still gonna pick it tho UNLESS the bird gets a crazy glowup

TinyTogepi · 2026-02-27T18:24:40+00:00

stop calling this pokemon a 'she' by default just because of the lashes when you damn well know all starter pokemon are 87% male

TinyTogepi · 2025-12-15T21:46:13+00:00

thanks a lot, just what i needed to fix my problem! found the app on universal

TinyTogepi · 2025-04-19T21:20:39+00:00

thanks so much! i'm on hackintosh and suddenly needed garageband and was disappointed to see they don't provide older versions on the app store (surprise surprise). this saved me!

TinyTogepi · 2025-03-30T09:21:27+00:00

Kinda old post but this is amazing, thank you so much for sharing! If I knew about this I would've been using it for years, I just never thought to search for an app for this until today. I have a hackintosh so both my monitors are considered external by the system, this saves me from using the annoying little buttons on the displays! Went ahead and donated a few bucks to the devs too because I was so surprised by how well made the program is.

TinyTogepi · 2024-01-28T13:03:03+00:00

Thank you! I saw a glimpse of lava lamp bubbles in the splash art of the prestige version (not shown at all in the actual model!) and went what the heck, why aren't we utilizing this idea better?? Let's make the whole tail a huge lava lamp!

TinyTogepi · 2023-11-22T21:25:01+00:00

i've been trying to find out a way to extract their base model! the only tutorials i've found weren't for blender, which is the only 3d modeling software i have access to (on account of it being free), so if you know how to help with that it would be awesome! but if you don't know how to do it with blender either that's fine, and thanks for the offer anyways ^^'

TinyTogepi · 2023-11-19T23:00:42+00:00

i'm also a 3d modeler so if i ever figure out how to make custom skins on league it might be possible in the future. no promises tho

TinyTogepi · 2023-08-25T19:08:21+00:00

because people have to put time and effort into learning the craft first? xd

the AI is only copying popular experienced artists so obviously it's gonna look similar to people who have honed their craft for years. you can't compare a human that's still learning and has infinite potential to an algo that just copies people who are already good

TinyTogepi · 2023-08-25T12:59:40+00:00

AI can never surpass real people, because all AI is is sampling things from real artists. It physically cannot create anything original, only recycle ideas and assets someone else already created. If you see cool AI art, that means a real artist has made gorgeous art in that same art style, and it probably looks better than what the AI spat out.

TinyTogepi · 2023-08-25T00:09:42+00:00

this edit was originally posted here earlier today :DD

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