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[Sam Franc <franc@oregonfast.net>]

list@ginda.us wrote:

> I have a myers lemon that lives in a pot through the winter, and in 
> the ground when it's not too cold - it will probably come inside in 
> about a month.
>
> I noticed that it seems to have picked up some scale this summer.  I 
> haven't had scale on this plant before, but my experience with other 
> houseplants is that it gets much worse when a plant goes indoors.  Any 
> suggestions of how to combat the scale?  It is obviously a plant we 

I have found that Myer is my most scale ridden plant. The only way I 
have been able to keep scale under control on it is to go over manually 
and scrape off the scale with my fingernails. Various sprays help , like 
oil but I still have to go over it manually every so often. I have a 
kumquat in the same area and it does not get scale at all.
Sam