Posted by Tom Broome on 11/1/2008, 10:30 am, in reply to "Re: Asian scale"
64.12.117.67
: Yeah, when I wrote that post, I was
: just off the phone from the ag.
: dept. and perhaps a bit rather
: paranoid.
: I will take the preventative
: measures you recommend. My wife
: always goes to starbucks, so I told
: her to always get whatever she can
: of the coffee grinds. I'll start
: mulching all the plants. I did
: apply imidocloprid at 4 x rates on
: any plants recently purchased. I'll
: probably make that a standard
: practice for all new arrivals. But
: it does scare me, knowing it is
: here, so I will have to be extra
: cautious in the future. The ag
: inspector was very friendly and very
: nice, they said they have gotten it
: here on several occaisions in vegas,
: and sadly, she said almost every
: plant in the nursery had scale. But
: sounds like they are handling it
: appropriately. I am really
: impressed how quickly they
: responded. oh well,
:
: I guess, 'being careful' is my new
: motto.
:
:
You always have to be careful now a days. As in this forum, people all over the world tell me things like this and I usually keep up with most of the things that are happening with cycads. They either have a dispute with a vendor, or buy an already rotted plant that the vendor won't take care of, or whatever, I hear it all. There are several people out there that I know are sending mail order cycads with CAS on them. I have had 3 people call or write about one person close to me here in central Florida that they got small cycas from him and got CAS on their collection. One person lived way up north where you would never expect to get CAS. There is a nursery owner that ships all over the world that has CAS spread throughout a large nursery and I have heard of these plants infesting places as far as Europe.
Some people just don't understand the problem, or what it takes to get rid of them and some people just don't care what they sell to people, and you never know who you are dealing with and what line they are willing to cross to sell a plant.
If you can get all the coffee grounds you want, you don't even need to worry. You can mulch the plants and keep them clean and ready systemically if for some reason some CAS got in your area from someone close. Keep in mind that local nursery was selling these plants to people around you, and that is all it takes. If you have someone within a mile of you that has CAS and you have a few wind storms that blow 35mph or more, be wathcing, it can right around the corner. (doesn't that make you feel so good)
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