Hello! I am new to The Helpful Gardener and gardening in general so I would be greatful for any assistance with my little (well, reallllllly BIG)issue. I live in northern California and have several citrus trees (orange, grapefruit and lemon) on my property and they all are completely infested with scale.
I was told by a local nursery to spray them once a week until the infestation is gone with a year-round spray oil (Master Nursery is the manufacturer). However, I am not sure that it will work. I had this problem earlier in the summer and sprayed the single tree infested with the scale and now I have all my citrus trees infected.
Do I just keep spraying until winter hits? I read somewhere that I shouldn't treat the trees in the winter plus what will the continued spraying due to my immature fruit?
Anyway, I am afraid these pesky pests are going to suck the living daylights out of my trees if I cannot find some relief for them. By the way, the trees are mature trees so removing the scale by hand with alcohol would prove to be nearly impossible. Please--anyone have a suggestion????????????? Thank you for your interest. Dazed and Confused :?, Jamie Christianson
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Kisal:
Thank you kindly for your help! I think the website is going to be very useful. The pictures identifying the different types of scale were great--I think my trees have California Red Scale (I am going to investigate further today). I guess all hope is not lost. Wish luck!!
Jamie
P.S. I will let you know you when I conquer the enemy!
Thank you kindly for your help! I think the website is going to be very useful. The pictures identifying the different types of scale were great--I think my trees have California Red Scale (I am going to investigate further today). I guess all hope is not lost. Wish luck!!
Jamie
P.S. I will let you know you when I conquer the enemy!
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