Vicki-What's Going On In Your Garden?

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Vicki, I have two orange trees that we purchased last year. One of them has a

black mold or soot looking substance on the older leaves. Is this scale? If

so, I'll try your remedy, or if someone else can help us both, I would

appreciate it also.

Anita in TX

 

My main focus is on getting rid of the scale from the citrus. The ruby

grapefruit tree, is loaded with fruit as is the lime and navel orange.

Lemons and mandarin doing ok too.

 

For scale I've mixed equal parts olive oil and water and a little soap to

emulsify. Used 1:40 with water and sprayed regularly for the past couple of

weeks and while the sooty mould appears to be drying up and peeling off I'm

becoming impatient. So if you have a better remedy for scale, I'm all ears

.......

 

Vicki