Scale treatment help needed

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BennieAnTheJets
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Scale treatment help needed

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From Steve's awesome sticky, it seems that I need to remove the scale from my unfortuate opuntias (just found them infested today upon watering - oh, no) with tweezers but then I am not so sure.

My plants are all indoor in saucers and I think the soak solution was no good for me from what I remember from the last discussion a couple of months ago. It was about mealies then.

Did I miss something? What should I do? Please help (agaim).

I would like to save these. Last time I threw my opuntia away that were infested - well, I threw some in the trash and some more lively ones into the yard, far away from my windows, and theose have come back - yeah!

I have several species in the same pot. Some don't look infested yet. Are they safe to keep in the window?

I was thinking I would remove the infested ones and keep the babies (pads) and others that don't show infestation around and watch them closely.

I am running out of quarantine spaces. ](*,)
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