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    Help For Beaucarnea recurvata

    That looks pretty bad. If it were me, and the top appears to look pretty good, I would try some major surgery rather than just give up. First, remove every last piece of rot that you can reasonably get to. This might entail digging the whole thing up and cutting half the base off. Don't be...
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    YouTube VDO Croton care instruction

    Kraft Gardens was in Deerfield until about 10 years ago. They were one of the few landscape nurseries that were on the east side of town, Powerline Road. They moved up to Ft Pierce and sell primarily to big box stores and interior-scapers. Their land costs in Ft Pierce are a fraction what...
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    Tentative date for the Croton Party

    I have our annual Garden Gathering event at the Deerfield Beach Arboretum on the 17th. It is from 9am to 2pm and although I could not go to Ricky's or Randy's place, I would welcome anyone here for a before or after thing. Not exactly next door but only few miles away. Could make it an "All...
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    Croton Scale VS Mealy Bug

    Here they are happily eating my croton scale.
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    Croton Scale VS Mealy Bug

    Look what I found: http://www.bugsforbugs.com.au/product/32 I guess I have Cryptolaemus on my Crotons eating my scale. Here is a picture off of this website.
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    Croton Scale VS Mealy Bug

    I have had a consistent problem with Croton Scale on a few of my plants. They were small plants and isolated from other crotons so I was not too concerned. I would spray a hose on them once in a while, blowing off most of them. This past week I noticed the scale were all deader than a door...
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    Sulphate of Potash

    You used to be able to buy the polymer coated K-Mag from nutricote/Florikan. Maybe still can. It is slow release so it is available to the plant at the same rate as your regular nutricote or other slow release fert.
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    Big time rain event occuring ,plants should be looking better for garden tour :)

    The weather guys said it is heading north west, so you guys might get a taste.
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    Big time rain event occuring ,plants should be looking better for garden tour :)

    Thunder Bolt and Lightning, very very frightening.
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    Where is the rain ???

    Another 1.5 inches overnight and it is still drizzling.
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    Where is the rain ???

    4.5 inches last weekend and .5 inch last night.
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    Dodder (cuscutaceae)

    Good luck keeping Dodder out. If it is not a Florida native, it surely has naturalized here. I have seen this plant all over Broward ever since I can remember. Where it is prevalent is in scrub type habitat that naturally burns off every decade or two, keeping the parasitic vine in check...
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    Losing our nurseries

    Most big box stores have no clue how to run a garden department and the plant material promptly starts to go downhill as soon as it gets there. To count on them selling your material on a consignment basis sounds like a losing proposition to me. I noticed that at the recent TPIE it did not...
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    The Croton Society - is it folding?

    I see live streaming of events all the time. Wouldn't that work? All you would need to make it interactive is someone there manning a laptop with either chatroom bids or PM bids. "Plus Jerry, if you split the profits with the grower (half to the "Chapter" and half to the grower) then more...
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    The Croton Society - is it folding?

    You could produce a "Shopping Network" type live internet show with a live interactive auction. You could do an EBay type production where you have dozens of air layered cultivars in an online auction with pics and short videos showcasing each of them. Bidding could take a day or a week. The...
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    Frienship Requests

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncdSelyaDu4
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    OT: Bug ID

    They are Plaster Bag Worms, but my mother calls them $*%!&@()!!! http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/urban/occas/household_casebearer.htm
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    Fall Croton Meeting and Tour

    Rick, That is called a "Silent Auction". A Chinese auction or raffle is where you set the croton on the table with a cup in front of it. People buy tickets and place them in the cup. The more tickets you buy, the greater the chance that your ticket will be pulled. This works great for a...
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    Everyone got a bath today

    A couple weeks ago, I mixed up 3 twenty gallon batches of drench. I also added a little soluble fertilizer into the mix. That took care of the 30 or 40 plants in the ground and maybe another hundred potted plants. The label called for 2.5 scoops of the liquid to be mixed with 20 gallons...
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    It's heeeeere

    It was only 77F here in the Land of Evil Signatures and Women Making Sandwiches with Mayo.
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