Leafmite I love the little jars! Looks like a science lab.

Lows here at the Ohio River below 10C/50F all this week, but next week looks to be warmer. I might give them a couple more weeks outside...but I might start bringing in the warm growers sooner.

It's still 20 at night here with the odd night dipping to 15, I have welded in new shelves to take the phals, and another to take pots and saucers etc. This should be interesting as they all come in, as I have been buying a few this year, so I'm not 100% sure that they will all fit...

Wow, am I ever blessed to be born and still living here in beautiful Florida.

Not all of mine are going to fit so the last of the large Cattleyas and a few others will be left outside until the next orchid meeting which is in two weeks. Our Orchid Society is having its fall plant sale so those orchids will be finding new homes.
CambriaWhat, thanks. I wish all orchids could grow in jars.
Our temps will be dropping to a daytime temps of 57'F/8'C and colder nights with the possibility of more rain.

I also set up my large rack and moved most of my plants indoors. I have been battling AWFUL SCALE!! I thought I had rid the scale and moved the cattleyas back with my other plants and it SPREAD!! :((:shock::hmm I have no idea what to do other than toss the plants?! I can't get rid of it. Help!!
I have used Neem oil, Bayer 3 in 1 and Alcohol.

Do you use it weekly for a few weeks? Bayer 3 in 1 is a systemic so once it has a chance to enter the plant, it should work. I find even with the systemics I need to treat weekly for a number of weeks. I spray them with Malathion to kill any that come in contact with it and keep it under control until the systemics can do their thing.

Often insecticides don't kill eggs, so you have to be persistent. Try horticultural oil you buy at a regular nursery. People with deciduous fruit trees spray this in the winter to kill insect eggs.

Here near Sacramento, CA, we are still in the 80's and 90's during the day and 60's or so at night. I figure it will be November before any of mine come in, and then probably only the oncidiums. The cymbidiums and dendrobiums will just tough it out outside, unless we get to some freezing nights.

Pay attention to your Dendrobiums. Some of them can't take cool weather. Look up some of the posts from pheli in Taiwan. No frost, but sometimes Dens die from the cold.

I need to get on a better regime with the plants as far as spray rotation. I am smothering them in neem and bayer every few days now. These are some of my favorite Cattleyas so it is very upsetting. But one of my cattleyas I had checked the day before I placed it with my others. I checked the next day and 2 entire plant bulbs were COVERED in them and it spread to a nearby oncidium. They have been killing my cattleya growths one by one! It's the worst issue I have had with any pest including mealy bugs, aphids, spider mites. These scale are horrible.
Should I stick with Bayer or Neem is my main tool for the KILL!! :evil:

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Oh and even worse, I definitely won't get flowers this year or maybe next it has set my plants back so much killing off growths.