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[INDOOR-GARDENING:64] Re: Jade Plant/Mealy Bugsters

hi!
I do actually use alcohol for most plants with mealy bug.  But the tea tree
oil really gives great shine to succulents.
Am I alone out here?  I seem to have more mealy bugs than plants!  They
love my jades, aloe, peperonia, dieffenbachia, coleus, aucuba - almost
everything!  I find they do not care for any cacti, wandering jew, spider,
sedum, syngonium or sansevieria.  If anyone has a way to get them OUT OF MY
HOUSE!, pleeeeeeaaaasssseeee help.  I have way too many plants for the time
it takes to wipe them all down individually each week.  

Looking for someone's secret,

Christine
martha's vineyard 





Hi Christine & Molly,
>Have you tried rubbing alcohol for mealybugs?  I used it on another 
>houseplant and it seemed to do the trick - just swap them with Q-tips or 
>a cotton ball dipped in the alcohol.
>
>Ann
>Somerville, MA
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