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Old 10-11-2012, 07:53 AM   #40
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Originally Posted by Jeanzb1 View Post
Talstar doesn't really work, and that the trees really need to be sprayed with horticultural oil before the temperature reaches 50 degrees. It should have been done in early spring, so it's probably too late now. But he says that it should be done again in the fall when the temperature is consistently around 40 degrees.
Sprayed the trees with this oil stuff (available at your local hardware store) in the Spring and again recently when the temps dropped into the 40s at night and...it seems to have worked!!!!
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