Hi Folks, 1st comment here. I started growing indoors in 1991 and bought plants wherever I found them. I'm growing now in a 10 X 16 Northern Lights aluminum frame w/ 2 ply poly free standing greenhouse. A couple of growers here in New England had ongoing scale problems. My collection expanded to its present 700 plants or so and many said I'd never get rid of the scale. I believed them for a while as nothing seemed to work. Mr. Paul Sawyer who grows in NH and for many years sold some very nice mixed genera told me that resmethrin sprayed for 3 weeks at 7 day intervals had worked for him. Only trouble was, this was five or six yrs. ago and resmethrin had just been taken off the market. Paul said permethrin was a similar product and I should try it. You'll find it all over Lowe's or Home Depot in all sorts or insecticides @ 2.5% conc. I use it with a mask in the hose attachable containers. For all I know this might have been all that helped me get rid of the scale. I've often heard that bugs build up resistance to chemicals. I alternated the Permethrin treatments w/ the following shotgun approach. I'd mix some Neem oil (70% conc. claimed by a Co. called Green Light in pint containers at local Lowe's stores), with Orthene (now using Isotox, as Orthene is no longer around), Insecticidal soap and pure cinnamon bark extract (5 drops). I just used a capful of all but the cinnamon in a quart sized sprayer or equivalent amts. in larger sprayers. Same 3 weeks at seven day intervals. Now if anyone can help w/ the slugs we'll be all set. Happy growing, Jim Isiminger, So. Easton, MA.
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