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  • From: Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Scale on Citrus
  • Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:41:32 -0500

Safers soap did not work well for me when I had scale. It set it back a
little, but the bugs always came back. Also, when I used too much of it my
plants sometimes grew oddly for a while.
___
Ginda

..... Original Message .......
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:33:00 -0500 road's end farm <organic101@linkny.com>
wrote:
>
>On Jan 21, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Doreen Howard wrote:
>
>> I have a couple of kumquats planted in pots that I bring indoors for
>> winter and place under lights.  They usually flower and produce
>> fruit.  This year, the plants have been inundated with scale.  I've
>> sprayed with clove-rosemary oil several times.  The oil knocks the
>> infestation back, but it reappears soon.  Since these plants are
>> indoors, and I'm basically an organic gardener, can anyone suggestion
>> another non-toxic battle plan?  I've already lost one plant to scale,
>> and now several houseplants have scale, too.
>> Doreen Howard
>> WI-IL Border, Zone 4b, where it's snowing
>
>Safers' insecticidal soap? haven't tried it for this; but it is
>labeled for scale.
>
>--Rivka
>Finger Lakes NY; zone 5 mostly
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