I generally know what I'm doing when it comes to growing but I've never had any issues with bugs eating up my leaves. I would like to know what I should do about this Picture 1: whatever the bug is, it doesn't eat all the way through the leaf, but only like a layer of green Picture 2: next to the leaf that was eaten up, there's white stuff appearing on leaf on the left side of the picture. This happened on a few other leaves too, but not many. These other pictures are just there for someone maybe to notice something I didn't, or to let me know what they think about the plant so far THANKS IN ADVANCE for any advice/information I'm given Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum mobile app ---RD3
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