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Thanks, everyone, for the advice.  I already went over it with my 
fingernails, and will do so again.  But I'd like to try the dormant 
oil, too.  If you wanted to buy dormant oil on short notice (i.e., not 
mail order) in suburbia, where would you go?  I've seen lots of other 
sprays in the hardware store, but don't recall seeing dormant oil.  Can 
I just use a cooking oil or baby oil or something?  (I have olive, 
peanut, and corn oil handy.)

Ginda

On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 09:10  PM, philip sauber wrote:

> Spray with dormant oil.  This will get rid of them.
> Phil
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> --------- Original Message ---------
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> DATE: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:27:47
> From: list@ginda.us
> To: NAFEX <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Cc:
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> > 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 
> > eat
> > from, but it doesn't currently have any fruit on it (the two that were
> > growing fell prematurely, possibly because of the scales living near
> > the fruit stems.)
> >
> > There aren't many scales on it right now, but I've tried picking them
> > off manually in the past without much luck.  The young insects are
> > transparent, and have a bad habit of hanging out in crevices and other
> > hard-to-see places.  I did end an infestation of something that looked
> > like wooly algelid on this plant by removing every bug by hand over a
> > two week period - I went over it leaf by leaf three or four times.
> > (It's not very big.)  But I don't know if that will be good enough for
> > scale.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ginda Fisher
> > zone 6, eastern MA
> >
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