Can Anyone Help Me with This Weird Powder?

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Tplant Pembroke Pines, FL(Zone 10a) Dec 31, 2008

I have some of this on my the very tops of my garden stakes supporting my tomatos and a few on the very tips of my tomato plants. Can you identify as this has never happened before? I know they are eggs but GOOD OR BAD?

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ceejaytown The Woodlands, TX(Zone 9a) Jan 06, 2009

Have you found out yet?

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Tplant Pembroke Pines, FL(Zone 10a) Jan 06, 2009

No! I hit it with insecticide and that was it. I'm not taking any chances.

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Joyce128 Cocoa Beach, FL(Zone 10a) Jan 19, 2009

I and several of my gardening friends are having a problem with a new (?) pest, pink mealybug on hibiscus plants. Maybe that is what you have too. We had an owner of a local nursery at our garden club meeting last week and we spoke about this problem. He believes that the only thing that will take care of it is a systemic and he recommended Fertilome Systemic Tree & Shrub Drench. I just bought a bottle but have not applied it yet.

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ceejaytown The Woodlands, TX(Zone 9a) Jan 20, 2009

We are just getting those into Texas. The working ingredient in your insecticide is imidacloprid, and I know they are testing it in the West Indies. I understand that you follow this treatment with Orthene as a foliar spray?

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Joyce128 Cocoa Beach, FL(Zone 10a) Jan 20, 2009

I was told to cut the hisbiscus way back before I do the first treatment with the systemic but the foliar spray was not advised. I will check into it. Thanks.

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pbyrley Wake Forest, NC(Zone 7b) Jan 23, 2009

Please don't use the systemic on your tomatoes!

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ceejaytown The Woodlands, TX(Zone 9a) Jan 23, 2009

Please don't use either one on your tomatoes!

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