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10-09-2020, 10:58 AM
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That looks HORRIBLE! Would freak me out for sure!
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10-09-2020, 11:01 AM
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That looks HORRIBLE! Would freak me out for sure!
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Yeah, and just as I am finally getting sensitized over the yeeeuuuuhhddddurrr feeling when I see aphids on a plant and have to spray them off.
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10-09-2020, 11:19 AM
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ewwwww creepy
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10-09-2020, 11:23 AM
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Whitefly. Big time.
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10-09-2020, 01:20 PM
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Sprayed them down. That was unpleasant. Skin still crawling. I need to learn to wear gloves!
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10-09-2020, 02:30 PM
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Dragon fruit flowers (Hylocereus and some Selenicereus species) open at night. You need to be out there with a paintbrush after midnight for best fruit set unless you have a lot of sphinx moths around. Many kinds are self-incompatible. If you have those you need more than one kind flowering at the same time.
They're not good for most gardeners because they get to be very large, heavy, sprawling vines, the size of a small tree. They tolerate essentially no frost. People in southern California and Florida can grow them easily.
They are very easy to grow in a pot, but they get big, fast. The red or yellow lollipop cacti you see sold have a chlorophyll-deficient Gymnocalycium grafted onto a piece of Hylocereus undatus. If the understock sends off a shoot you can let it harden, cut it off and root it.
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10-10-2020, 08:01 AM
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Whitefly. Big time.
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So this is what whitefly looks like. That's very good to know. It's as creepy and smothery looking as black beard algae.
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10-10-2020, 11:28 AM
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So this is what whitefly looks like. That's very good to know. It's as creepy and smothery looking as black beard algae.
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Oh, and fun part is when the spay hits them they take off in a cloud. Very icky. They love hibiscus. But also hide on the undersides of Cym leaves.
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10-10-2020, 12:48 PM
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I have a sick pleasure I get from doing a super dilute neem oil spray.
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10-10-2020, 02:08 PM
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Y’all can just keep your whiteflies to yourselves!
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