Thursday, June 7, 2007

My favourite garden plant CYCAS revoluta

Purchased this exotic Cycas plant ( King Sago ) four years back from a nearby nursery. During planting found that scale like infection in the cycad leaves.

A quick search in the Net revealed that Asian cycad scale infection in my cycas. I am really disappointed and removed all the visible white scales by hand. My local pet shop recommended to spray ACTARA broadspectrum pest killer from Syngenta. I have sprayed (soaked) the plant with this insecticide including root. Wow! All the scales are gone within few weeks and no infection again! Rightnow my four year old Cycas growing thick and fast with dark green leaves and lot of "SUCKERS" at the bottom.

New foliage picture of my cycas....


The picture of a separated cycad pup from mother cycad...


Want to separate pup from mother plant, please post your comment..I can give detailed instructions...Bye for now.