Hi All Many thanks for the responses - greatly appreciated! I spent a couple of hours inspecting the roots on each specimen and did not see anything akin to the photographs posted which is a huge relief. And that method does seem logical and is something I have done before - if not the heat, surely...

Hi All Many thanks for the responses - greatly appreciated! I spent a couple of hours inspecting the roots on each specimen and did not see anything akin to the photographs posted which is a huge relief. And that method does seem logical and is something I have done before - if not the heat, surely ...

Thanks for the reply! Are you saying my photographs show classic root mealy or your photographs does? I have to say, it was not clumped like it is shown in your photographs, on the soil, rather just along the roots themselves within the soil? I did not see any rice sized insects. Thanks again for yo...

Hi Diane Thank you very much for your reply. My research also led me to a similar understanding - I have now since inspected the roots of (what I hope is) a healthy aloe; I note the root system has many hundreds of white fine hair like structures (less than 1mm in length each) in random patches, whi...

Hi there I am new to succulent and cactus care (just over a year or so), and so my knowledge is limited. I was wondering if anyone could help identify what is a sort of, white to green fungus type growth in my aloe roots? The photo is 4X zoomed (taken on carpet so the carpet fibre gives an idea of h...