Re: CULT: louisiana transplant/scale
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: louisiana transplant/scale
- From: C* C*
- Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 12:08:39 -0800 (PST)
John: Call an 'organic' nursery and see if they don't
have a light summer oil spray that will kill scale. I
hate using poisons, too, but can't give up my "Bug
Bait" to kill snails, slugs, pill bugs & grasshoppers.
I've never used an oil spray but I know the real
organic people use it for scale.
Forgot to say in last two posts re: growing the LAs in
the shade. This works because of the intensity of the
TX summer sun!
Carol
--- John Reeds <jreeds@microsensors.com> wrote:
> I'll be moving my louisianas later this year; some
> of them have a scale
> infestation I've been battling for about a year.
> They haven't been real
> happy in their temporary growing area, so with all
> the trimming of infested
> leaves they may not even bloom this spring. I've
> been able to cotrol it
> somewhat with Ortho's "Isotox" spray. I wonder if I
> should dip them in a
> dilute solution of it before transplanting, but I
> hate to handle all that
> poison. Any suggestions? I can replant the
> louisianas immediately upon
> digging, or clean them up and spray the tops,
> soaking the roots overnight
> while leaving the tops exposed. I just don't want
> the scale to follow them
> to the new bed.
>
> John Reeds, in sunny southern California,
> where the Ghio plicatas are exploding with stalks
> jreeds@microsensors.com
>
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