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Auti

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Strange growth on Caapi
« on: September 21, 2020, 10:32:59 PM »
Hello

I'm a noob regarding Caapi.

Does this look like normal growth or is this scale perhaps?

The depicted Caapi is less thick than a pencil.

Thank you.
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Auti

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Re: Strange growth on Caapi
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2020, 12:13:17 AM »
I poked at it with a tweezer and it fell off easily. Perhaps a dead scale bug? It was white inside. i didn't see anything moving inside. Hope it didn't have any offspring.
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RatsboggleBiological

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Re: Strange growth on Caapi
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2020, 08:22:40 PM »
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« Last Edit: October 16, 2020, 06:31:37 PM by RatsboggleBiological »
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Jfart

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Re: Strange growth on Caapi
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2021, 06:27:52 AM »
I’m pretty sure that’s a scale bug.  I had a kratom plant years ago from a Florida vendor that had scale bugs. I fought them for years before the plant died. One day there were no bugs and the next day one of those pods hatched with hundreds of them crawling everywhere. They can really mess up some plants if not treated. I would scrub plants with rubbing alcohol on cotton ball  and rinse them with water often. You can get rid of them though.
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Auti

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Re: Strange growth on Caapi
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2021, 11:13:17 PM »
I got rid of them! by checking daily and scooping the babies up with a moist tip of a knife. I didn't give them a chance to develop into mature adults like the one in the picture.
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