Re: Cast Iron plant

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• To: <g*@hort.net>
• Subject: Re: [CHAT] Cast Iron plant
• From: &* H* <h*@islc.net>
• Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:14:15 -0500
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I'll have to look closer at them. These are pale, maybe straw colored.
Hmmmm, I wonder if I can take a photo and scan it so some of you guys can
see these things.

Andrea H
Beaufort, SC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "cathy carpenter" <cathyc@rnet.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Cast Iron plant


> Thrips do move. There are many kinds, and their color is brown, black
> or straw. They look like tiny wood slivers, maybe 2mm long, max.
> Cathy
> On Wednesday, March 10, 2004, at 06:49 PM, Andrea H wrote:
>
> > They don't move. I wondered if it was thrips, I've never actually
> > encountered them to my knowledge. Maybe that's it.
> >
> > Ceres, they aren't in the house, they're outside, and it's definitely
> > not
> > scale. these are WAY too small for that. How do you treat thrips?
> >
> > Andrea H
> > Beaufort, SC
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "cathy carpenter" <cathyc@rnet.com>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 7:19 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Cast Iron plant
> >
> >
> >> Do they move? Thrips, perhaps?
> >> Cathy
> >> On Sunday, March 7, 2004, at 06:22 PM, Andrea H wrote:
> >>
> >>> ditto for me too. I've never seen it bloom and I've had to variegata
> >>> in pots
> >>> on my porch for 5-6 years. Although they seem to have gotten some
> >>> kind
> >>> of
> >>> pest that's sucking the life out of them. I've prayed, scrubbed, etc
> >>> and
> >>> they keep coming back. They look like little white specks, except
> >>> they're
> >>> long and thin, if that makes any sense at all. One of my leaves is
> >>> just
> >>> covered with them. A hard jet of water does NOTHING. It's like
> >>> they're
> >>> glued
> >>> to the plant.
> >>>
> >>> Andrea H
> >>> Beaufort, SC
> >>
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