GrowingHQ

What is wrong with my plant?

Four ways in, depending on how much you already know. If all you know is that something is wrong, start at the top.

What this will and will not tell you

GrowingHQ will not name your problem from a photograph or a paragraph. What it does is narrow the possibilities and then tell you the one observation that separates what is left — which is the step most guidance skips, and the only step that turns a list of causes into an answer. Where two causes genuinely cannot be told apart by eye, it says so rather than picking the likelier one.

Work through it question by question

The best starting point if you are not sure what you are looking at. It asks whichever question would narrow things down fastest, and stops as soon as another answer would not help.

Diagnose a plant

Covers 23 of the 23 signs below. Nothing you answer is stored or sent anywhere — the answers live in the address bar and nowhere else.

Start from what you can see

Grouped by where the sign shows, because that is the first thing you can be certain of. Each page lists the possible causes and how to tell them apart.

Guides for a particular plant

Where GrowingHQ holds enough that is specific to one plant to be worth reading on its own. Most plants do not have one, and a page that only repeated the general answer would not be worth your time.

Houseplants

Vegetables

Fruit

Herbs

Ornamentals

Go straight to a cause

For when you already know what you are dealing with, or want to know what a plot is likely to face before it happens.

· marks a problem with no effective home remedy. Saying so is more useful than listing things that do not work.