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[mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>]

This is an important point,  Ive used some dormant oil that we were 
also using on apples, on the citrus.  Had them in a fully shaded area & 
still had a lot of leaves & wood turn black.  Having a pretty large 
citrus collection in containers, I find it inevitable that you get 
scale on the plants.  I vastly prefer good old water & a sprayer that 
has a jet setting.  I can spray off 95% of the scale a lot faster with 
this method than individually removing the scale.  Also sometimes when 
it is quite bad on a plant I'll stop watering the plant to get it to 
drop leaves since that is where most of the scale tends to congregate.  
This of course is stressing the plants, but I have personally observed 
after 10 years of container growing that plant that have endured 
various stresses last a lot longer in my collection.

mIEKAL


On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 08:42 AM, loneroc wrote:

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