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Originally Posted by D2112
The jap beetles will eat the Lombardi poplars too. You can do root injection with merit on them in April. It's got a 4 month residual. And whatever you do don't use that bag a bug shit. You'll be attracting jap beetles from all over the place, and it only attracts the males. The females are the ones that do the damage.
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There is so much stuff around here that they didn't bother the poplars.
I was out there smashing those bugs between my fingers, they had me so pissed off.
Nothing that I tried touched them, fruit tree spray, Miathilion, seven, etc.
But I just heard this week exactly what you said. Both about the bag and systemic additive to the soil. I want to investigate further if the soil additive will foul the fruit.
I can't tell you how much I have enjoyed the figs and look forward to peaches, pears and plums next year!