@B3. Paint on methylated spirit, works a treat and much cheaper, alcohol is for drinking 😉
Methylated spirits is alcohol, just contaminated with methanol, pyridine and colour to disuade one from drinking, and drop it into a lower duty category..
You can by systemic insecticides that a recommended for food products.
You could do nothing. Scale insects do little in my experience, to reduce fruit yield.
If you can't reach "it" (by which I assume you mean the top of the fig-tree) then can you reach the fruit? A heavy prune might be the best for scale insect treatment, and the fruiting vigour of the plant.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Brown Turkey is so common, that it is difficult to buy another variety. For foliage it is not the best. Fairly simple 3 lobes rather than a full Greek statue 5-lobes.
I do not have scale insects on my fruiting Brown Turkey, but on my baytrees and camellia they hide on the bottomside of the leaf out of sight. Though they do tend to drip honeydew that then goes black.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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You can by systemic insecticides that a recommended for food products.
You could do nothing. Scale insects do little in my experience, to reduce fruit yield.
If you can't reach "it" (by which I assume you mean the top of the fig-tree) then can you reach the fruit? A heavy prune might be the best for scale insect treatment, and the fruiting vigour of the plant.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I do not have scale insects on my fruiting Brown Turkey, but on my baytrees and camellia they hide on the bottomside of the leaf out of sight. Though they do tend to drip honeydew that then goes black.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."