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Muscadine scale

Posted by paintbug_2009 (My Page) on
Mon, Mar 30, 09 at 19:41

I moved into a new home last May. The property had a Muscadine arber with four older plants on it. Didn't really do anything with them until this spring. I notice that the plants has a scale gowning on them. I went to a local nurery I was give a dorment spray to put on them. If I read the label right this should have been used during the winter months. Is their any thing put on them now or do I need to wait until this next winter?


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RE: Muscadine scale

Check with your extention agent but I understand you are not to use it during the time when the sun is hot and would cause so damage to the plants also. I took this off a website for dormat oil. Dormant/All Season Spray Oil Stops Insects Before They Start Information about non-poisonous control you won’t find even in many gardening encyclopedias.

In the spring, before your trees or ornamentals leaf out, spray them with a mixture of "Superior" (or "Summer") oil and water. This highly refined, light, almost odorless oil, is made specifically for insect control. The oil-water mixture does not damage the environment. There is no poison. The oil simply seals over wintering eggs of pests so they don’t hatch. It also kills hatched insects coated with the mixture. Based on our tests we recommend the superior oil proven for 50 years. Use this oil as instructed on the can.

1 quart makes about 25 gallons
Paul


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