Posted by Tom Broome on 10/1/2009, 8:55 pm, in reply to "scale on my cycads"
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: I just read your article in Ornamental
: Outlook about the scale on my Sagos.
: I am going to try the coffee spray
: and mulch this weekend. I have
: tried everything else and nothing
: has worked, let's hope this does. I
: have too many big plants to lose any
: one of them. I noticed in the
: article that the pictures on the
: bottom of the page said March then
: March (trimmed and treated) then
: June. How much do I trim before I
: spray and mulch. They are really
: infested with the white sticky
: stuff.
:
I cut off anything that didn't have enough green on it to help the plant. If it had some decent green, I just sprayed those leaves with the juice. That article didn't truly explain everything, it was more like an interview. So, I would suugest reading the actual article that I wrote for more good information:
http://www.cycad.org/documents/Broome-Coffee-2007.pdf
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