Home made scale solution
I bought this gorgeous Verigated Shell Ginger plant couple of weeks back.
But sadly I noticed its leaves were shriveling and new shoots were not opening.
It worsened and the leaves started getting brown and looked burnt on the sides.
I could notice little brown round shells on the leaves especially near leaf nods.Couple of minutes of googling and the culprit was caught...
Soft brown scale...sap sucking insect
(Image and some details from here)
Some more googling and got the organic and cheap solution from this great website (see the link for many more homemade pest remedies).
Following is the recipe:
Ingredients: vegetable oil and dishwashing liquid
Preparation: Mix four tablespoons of dish-washing liquid to one cup of vegetable oil. Dilute this mixture by adding one part of this mixture to twenty parts water. Fill in a spray bottle (I always reuse empty bathroom cleaner spray bottles) and spray on the scale. This mixture suffocates the scale. I repeated the spray after 5-6 days and cleaned the leaves with a damp cloth in between to remove scale. Make sure you wear gloves to clean.
I'm happy to see the results after couple of weeks of spray. I'll post the new photos in few days.
I bought this gorgeous Verigated Shell Ginger plant couple of weeks back.
But sadly I noticed its leaves were shriveling and new shoots were not opening.
I could notice little brown round shells on the leaves especially near leaf nods.Couple of minutes of googling and the culprit was caught...
Soft brown scale...sap sucking insect
(Image and some details from here)
Some more googling and got the organic and cheap solution from this great website (see the link for many more homemade pest remedies).
Following is the recipe:
Ingredients: vegetable oil and dishwashing liquid
Preparation: Mix four tablespoons of dish-washing liquid to one cup of vegetable oil. Dilute this mixture by adding one part of this mixture to twenty parts water. Fill in a spray bottle (I always reuse empty bathroom cleaner spray bottles) and spray on the scale. This mixture suffocates the scale. I repeated the spray after 5-6 days and cleaned the leaves with a damp cloth in between to remove scale. Make sure you wear gloves to clean.
I'm happy to see the results after couple of weeks of spray. I'll post the new photos in few days.
