we have a problem with mealy bugs on our Fukien Tea... we
found
them few
weeks ago and since then we try to pick them up using ear
buds
soaked in
alcohol...


Jim said:
The soap spray should work
over here, SAFERS makes a good soap spray.

I just had someone contact the "bonsai doctor" with a fukien
tea that he had sprayed with a soap insecticide, and it had made
the tree completely defoliate. So I'd test the soap first,
before doing the whole tree.....

Ouch! Yes. ALWAYS test a spray you haven't used on a particular
species before spraying that prize-winning tree.

This was my ignorance of tropicals coming out. I KNOW that soap
is bad for trident maples, and should have warmned that it may be
bad for other species, too. My bad.



I have very good luck with pyrethrin sprays against scale
insects, and I haven't seen any phytotoxicity, but I don't have a
fukien tea, of course.


My second recommendation, which should have been my first. I
have yet to find anything that reacts badly to pyrethrin sprays.
(except bugs, of course ;-)

BUT STILL, TEST IT.

Listen to Doctor Nina!

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Only where
people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and
its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect it
should have - Paul Bigelow Sears.

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