Soon after I had brought the Meyer lemon in from outside I knew that I would battle a winter pest problem. It started with spider mites, but their numbers were few. I sprayed the tree down with distilled water everyday for a week and the spider mites went away. After they left scales moved in. The pictures you have seen so far have not even dealt with pests because my camera is so bad. (My nice digital camera broke, so my cell phone pictures will have to work).
While I was having success with the first two lemons growing the sneaky scales were invading in large numbers. At first I would pick them off with tooth picks. That did not work. Then tried spraying down with water everyday for a week. That did not work. Then whipped up some homemade organic pest spray. Did that for a week but still did not work. Finally I broke down and bought a horticulture spray from Amazon.com.
The leaves were shiny for at least a week after the spray. The scales died. Victory was finally mine.
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