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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.
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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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[NAFEX] Scale on Citrus,
Doreen Howard, 01/21/2008
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Re: [NAFEX] Scale on Citrus,
Bob Sorenson, 01/21/2008
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Re: [NAFEX] Scale on Citrus,
Ginda Fisher, 01/21/2008
- Re: [NAFEX] Scale on Citrus, loneroc, 01/21/2008
- Re: [NAFEX] Scale on Citrus, Donna &/or Kieran, 01/22/2008
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Re: [NAFEX] Scale on Citrus,
Ginda Fisher, 01/21/2008
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Re: [NAFEX] Scale on Citrus,
road's end farm, 01/21/2008
- Re: [NAFEX] Scale on Citrus, Ginda Fisher, 01/21/2008
- Re: [NAFEX] Scale on Citrus, Donna &/or Kieran, 01/22/2008
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [NAFEX] Scale on Citrus, rmelrose, 01/21/2008
- [NAFEX] scale on citrus, Alan Haigh, 01/21/2008
- [NAFEX] scale on citrus, Michelle Horner, 01/21/2008
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Re: [NAFEX] Scale on Citrus,
Bob Sorenson, 01/21/2008
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