Steve:
There are two things that you can do to reduce your pest population
problem: Use an oscillating fan blowing across your collection, and
second you can obtain yellow sticky boards and place them strategically
around your collection.

The oscllating fan is my favorite.

Carl L. Rosner - near Atlantic City zone 6/7
http://bmee.net/rosner
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Steve Parr wrote:

Dale,

I have a rain barrel attached to my shed roof that I use to fill several
watering cans strategically placed around the yard. I do keep Bt based mosquito
dunks in the rain barrel, think this might be problem?

I haven't used any of these cans yet, as I am still watering it with a mix of
KLN rooting concentrate (when needed). We had 1-1/2" of rain in 30 minutes or
so last night. More rain and less wind than the storms that popped during the
MABA convention.

My main pest problem while growing indoors is aphids, they seem to appear no
matter what I do. Seen a few outbreaks of scale on some Ficus, but nothing
else. I usually pick the scale off by hand and use Neem oil for the aphids.
What does a mealy bug look like? Do you mean the little "rollie-pollies"?

Steve Parr - Cincinnati, Ohio -
USDA Zone 6
"Now who's respon... I say who's responsible for this unwarranted attack on my
person"
Foghorn Leghorn


On Monday, July 14, 2003 8:16 PM, dalecochoy ]
wrote:


snip
Steve,
something I forgot to mention in my earlier post. Here in OHIO it might be a
good Idea to use warm water ( like from a container sitting out) to water.
Especially in Winter you want water to be warmer if watering in the house. .
And, if you have well water, that's really cold! I know mine sure is. Be
careful of hosing it down outside with that for a while.
snip
One other thing I don't know if Mary mentioned. When it gets scale/ mealy


bugs ( and it will).... no malithion!


Dale



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