On Aug 12, 10:34*pm, Spider wrote:
On 11/08/2011 22:11, AL_n wrote:

It took me many attemts to get a successfully rooting cutting from a
hibiscus shrub. Then when I finally succeeded, it got attacked by what I
guess was spider mites. I could see a load of minute dead white bus on the
undesides of the leaves and a few cobweb-like starnds too. The leaves all
sort of dried up, and the plant seems to have given up the ghost, despite
having grown decent roots. How does this happen? Can I revive the baby
shrub?

TIA

Al

Have followed this thread and agree with replies. *However, no-one has
covered the fact that any rsm that has recently sucked dry a virused
plant can transmit that virus to the new plant. *In most cases, there is
no treatment and the plant(s) must be destroyed. *This is also true of
aphids and other sap-sucking or plant-chewing insects. *It doesn't sound
as if this was the case with the OP's plant, but it's another thing to
watch out for.

--
Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay

Good point. In fact viruses spread by sucking pests are often a
greater danger than the sucking itself. In commercial stocks there are
often widespread and expensive consequences.

Rod