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Re: jealous

>Then I had problems with some kind of bug(?) in the dirt that ate
>the roots and the only sign of trouble was that the plant stopped
>growing and then suddenly died. I watered with a pesticide and
>now everything seems ok. Anyone know what it could have been? I
>couldn't see any bugs.

Could be soil mealie bugs.  They're difficult to see because they look like
little white clusters of perlite in the soil.  Supposedly they have a flying
phase and can spread that way into the rest of your plants, so it's good you
got rid of them.  There's a gal in our African Violet club who had to get
rid of her whole collection because she just couldn't get rid of them.  She
was a show grower too, so it really must have hurt for her to do that.

Cami
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