I have an ornamental orange tree ( don't know the variety but the fruit is very tart but the skins are very sweet) that my late husband brought back from the airport in Florida when I was 17(it was a twig). I am now 68, you do the math. It has gone through three moves and done well over the years. It lives outside in the summer and is in a south facing window in the winter. A lot of the leaves fall off in the winter but it usually comes back with a vengeance in the summer. I have been battling mealy bugs for the past two or three years. This year is the worst. I'm not sure it will make it through the winter. I have used everything on it I can think of, alcohol, neem oil, dursban; it lessens the bugs for awhile but comes back double. If it makes it through the winter I will take it out of the pot, rinse the roots with neem oil and repot it with new soil. I hope it lives because it is very sentimental to me.
I have an ornamental orange tree ( don't know the variety but the fruit is very tart but the skins are very sweet) that my late husband brought back from the airport in Florida when I was 17(it was a twig). I am now 68, you do the math. It has gone through three moves and done well over the years. It lives outside in the summer and is in a south facing window in the winter. A lot of the leaves fall off in the winter but it usually comes back with a vengeance in the summer. I have been battling mealy bugs for the past two or three years. This year is the worst. I'm not sure it will make it through the winter. I have used everything on it I can think of, alcohol, neem oil, dursban; it lessens the bugs for awhile but comes back double. If it makes it through the winter I will take it out of the pot, rinse the roots with neem oil and repot it with new soil. I hope it lives because it is very sentimental to me.