[arvin555]

When it rains it pours! I just found today that one of my ventricosas has a bad infection of root mealybugs, It was lucky that for some reason the plant got slighty uprooted and I saw the white stuff. I tried plucking out the old potting mix (cocopeat) but there are still a lot along with the roots. So I thought what the hey, try the soap again, a drop of dishwashin soap in about 100ml of water, soaked the roots in there and started shaking. I don't think I took out most of the white stuff but hopefully I killed off the bugs themselves. Left the plant in new cocopeat and the pot in a water dish to make sure the plant won't dehydrate from what I did.

Got me thinking, Neps can usually take being underwater for some time, maybe one can soak the whole pot in water to drown out all the bugs, maybe 1 or 2 hours. Any comments?

TTFN
Arvin