Hello everyone my name is Corbin Rhodes and this is Plant Basics so in this video
I am going to show you how I am going to use a soapy a water solution to remove scale insects
from my Anthurium Papillilaminum, I think that's the name I'll put
the actual name on the screen for you guys but I do think it is pronounced Papillilaminum, yeah
Anthurium Papillilaminum. My plant, unfortunately, got some scale when I wasn't looking so today I thought
I will show you how I use a soapy water solution to wash off the scale from the leaves of my plant
I will also put a link up the video I did where I used surgical spirits to control
scale and mealybugs on another plant, if you want to see, if you want to use that
method instead so to start off with I'm going to use a bottle of water
and then add in a generous amount of sunlight liquid (dish soap) then I'm going to mix it
and use a clean cloth put it into the mixture and really get it to make bubbles, There we go.
So now what I'm going to do is just wring it out a little bit , so it's
wet and then take the back of my leaf and basically just wipe it down
with this mixture and take off any insects that I can possibly find i'll also do the front of the leaf
and this will help to dislodge* them from their hiding places, it will disturb them.
They will just not know whats hit them. This is also an organic/natural way of pest control um you can
also obviously use a systemic insecticide which will also be a great way to get rid of scale.
So one thing I will also say is just be careful that you don't damage
the leaves of your plant so just wipe it down and yeah don't go too hard.
So now this leaf and stem so I'm first going to do the stem and just remove the scale that was
on the stem and now I'm going to go over the leaf
and take off all of those pesky little instincts. I mean I'm sure we'll all be agreed on this
that we just hate scale insects on our plants, I mean next to
spider mites they are just the worst. I'm going to use my cloth once more over this leaf
just to make sure I've gotten them all. The great thing about doing this on Anthuriums is that
the leaves are relatively easy to handle and you can easily inspect them you can easily
do what you need to do. I think I've dislodged them all. I'm going to clean out this
bowl quickly and put fresh clean water in and then wipe down my leaves for a second time.
I'll be right back. So here we are I've put clean water into the bowl. I'm
going to put it in my cloth again and then just wipe over my plant's leaves again
Here we are my plant is now clean and free of any scale. I hope that you guys enjoyed this video if
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