[INDOOR-GARDENING:66] Re: Jade Plant/Mealy Bugsters

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• Subject: [INDOOR-GARDENING:66] Re: Jade Plant/Mealy Bugsters
• From: N* <n*@wolfenet.com>
• Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 18:21:00 -0800
• In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19990121173953.006a34e4@pop.gis.net>
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I wonder if agricultural grade DE (diatamaceous earth) would work for mealy
bugs. I will ask on my OG list if anyone there knows.

>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,



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Natalie McNair-Huff
White Rabbit Publishing

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  • [INDOOR-GARDENING:62] Re: Jade Plant
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    • From: C* H* &*

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