Wendy7 wrote:
Well I guess both options of fumigation are out as I can't run!!! *G*
(Arthritis)
Oh & that CA thing!
My plants have scale & mealy bugs & I have used everything from the
409/oil recipes
WP & the $$$$ Enstar & Mavrik to no avail.
The most effective item lately has been a product that has 1%
Pyritherins (Safer brand)
So I need to look for it in a concentrated form as it is around $5 for
the normal spray bottle.
Anyway thanks for the info,
Cheers Wendy

Wendy-

I had an ongoing problem with scale on the bromeliads. I fought it with
everything for two years. Last spring at repotting time, I filled a
50-gallon plastic 'sweater storage' tub I usually use for fertilizer
with a strong malathion solution and took each upotted plant and with
the use of my 'grabbies' (long tube with pincers on end usually used for
picking up trash on the lawn or retrieving hard-to-reach plants by the
pot), completely submerged (roots and all) and swirled them around in
that, one by one. No scale a year later. None. Zip. Nada.

I know one is usually hesitant to share solutions between orchids, but
if you just have a few or even a couple dozen plants which seem to be
the problem, this could be done in, say, a one- or two- gallon jug of
some sort, emptying and washing it out between plants and still only use
the same fifty gallons. I know it would be laborious, but it works!

Tennis