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  • Amaryllis and Narcissus bulb fly

    From Chuck from schodack@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 21 16:31:26 2021
    They are the spawn of Satan and can wreck expensive and beautiful amaryllis bulbs

    Hate them passionately

    Going to try moth ball storage

    Tobacco juice treatment in soils and also DE in soil next year

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  • From David E. Ross@21:1/5 to Chuck from schodack on Sat Aug 21 10:54:29 2021
    On 8/21/2021 9:31 AM, Chuck from schodack wrote:
    They are the spawn of Satan and can wreck expensive and beautiful amaryllis bulbs

    Hate them passionately

    Going to try moth ball storage

    Tobacco juice treatment in soils and also DE in soil next year

    I have been growing Hippeastrum since the late 1950s, moving the bulbs
    from one house to the next. Currently, mine are in pots up on a table
    and a counter outside, to keep them away from snails. In my climate,
    they are outside all year.

    I have never seen anything resembling a grub on them, but I have had
    problems with whitefly and mealybugs. For those, I take a thin stick
    and poke two holes in each pot and then fill the holes with Bayer 2-in-1 fertilizer with systemic insecticide.

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    David E. Ross
    Climate: California Mediterranean, see <http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html>
    Gardening diary at <http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary>

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