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Ginda,

Spray your citrus with Sunoil as recommended twice before you bring it in
the house.  That will also protect the foliage aginst spider mites.

There is also a hormone spray that is great, but runs about $40 for the
smallest size.  I have some---I won't search out the name unless you're
interested.

For most other houseplants, Cygon, or dimethoate, works wonders, but
obviously isn't for the organic crowd.

Steve Herje, Lone Rock, WI  USDA zone 3
----- Original Message -----
From: <list@ginda.us>
To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 4:27 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] scale on Myers Lemon


> 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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