Re:abutilons and scale/ants
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re:abutilons and scale/ants
- From: d* f*
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 12:43:10 -0800 (PST)
Barbara,
Deborah's suggestion of spraying with light oil is
probably the best, but I never get around to it
myself, (and suffer with scale and thrips on many
sensitive plants as a result). I find that running my
hand up and down stems to remove scale from time to
time, and/or cutting back to the ground to get fresh
new growth if it is out of control also works.
Abutilons should be selected for resistance to scale
aside from flowers and size, but this must be harder
to select for. Another plant that I find even harder
to keep alive for more than a few years, due to scale,
is Alyogyne huegelii/Blue Hibiscus. This plant must
be stressed in some way in northern California, even
though it grows so well here, as it_always_seems to
get scale eventually.
--- Deborah Lindsay <Deborah.Lindsay@kaiseral.com>
wrote:
> Barbara,
>
> I use summer weight hort. oil which I keep a pint of
> pre-mixed,at the ready,
> since I know that if I have to stop what I'm doing
> and go mix it up I will
> decide to do it later,then forget it long enough for
> the scale to reproduce and
> get really bad.
> Use it at the first signs of scale.The ants will be
> discouraged too if the scale
> isn't allowed to get bad since the ants are after
> the sugary secretions produced
> by the scale.
>
> Deborah
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