Pedro and Josh Here!

This weekend was our weekend practical here at Fanshawe College in the greenhouse, We received some new tropicals plants!  Such an exciting day! We received 3 cultivars of Pothos, 6 Peace lilies, 2 Ficus, 2 Lady Palms and 1 Fan Palm.  These plants were ordered to replace some plants in the college interior scape. The plants we are replacing are covered the the dreadful  MEALY BUG! L

Yucca covered in mealy bug

 We started by cutting down the large Yucca to transport it easily back to the greenhouse where we can clean the pot and add in new plants! To avoid contaminating the other plants we used the tractor bay. 

 

  

 One of the plants was still recoverable but to get rid of mealy bugs you need to get every single one. Some even live in the soil!

Pedro had to bare-root a plant and cleaned it vigorously to get rid of the mealy bug!

This weekend was a lot of hard and it sure paid off! Here are the finished results!

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