Hello garden lovers.
Well I don't have a garden but I do have plants in my apartment. And now I have two more.
I was walking the dog and when I passed the garbage bin, I saw these two plants standing. Not your average outside plants, and it was also freezing, so I tough lets have a look what they are doing there.
There was a little note in one of the plants and it read the following:
Watch out, there is wolluis (Googels translate it to mealybug) in the plants. You could get it away with some effort but be patient. Probably the previous owners didn't have that much patients.
So I thought those are to beautiful not to take with me. But I do not want to get my other plants to be infected. So they were going inside and I will get them in the shower first to see if I can get the mealybug away.
I took a good look at the plant and found the mealybug. But I actually thought it was not that bad.
There also were these kind of boxes hanging in the pant. They are biological pest control. Bugs that kill other bugs. But I didn't see any other bug then the mealybugs.
I decided to treat them according to my own method. I dealt with these bastards before. First I showered them very good. And I made a mixture of green soap, methylated spirits and water and put it in my plant sprayer. For a couple of day's I treated the leaves with the mixture and that went very well.
I have them standing in my bedroom for a while. this because that one plant is super big and I just don't have enough space in my living room, and They are still there because of the quarantine. I want tobe sure to have them bug free now.
Did you ever find plants at the garbage? I am curious which plants did you saved from the garbage! I would like to thank the neighbor who threw them away.
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