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To all,

Dormant oil can damage citrus if is a heavy winter oil.  Sunoil, or other
light oils are safer on non-dormant plants.

Steve Herje
----- Original Message -----
From: "philip sauber" <mrtejas@lycos.com>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] scale on Myers Lemon


> Spray with dormant oil.  This will get rid of them.
> Phil
> --
>
> --------- 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:
>
> >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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