I just discovered that my favorite plant..a weeping ficus.. has a very bad case of scale.

I had this problem years ago with a huge jade plant, and after several trys at killing the scale with malathion (spraying it on, then covering the plant with a dry claener bag for several hours..I did this 3 times and it didn't work)), I broke off all of the leaves and actually got rid of the problem..years later the plant is healthy and no scale anywhere on it.

I doubt that would work with the ficus, especially since it is now the fall..

Before I throw it in the trash and keep it from infecting everything else, I wondered if anyone has heard of this ..

I was told that if I put it in a dry cleaner bag and get someone to exhale cigarette smoke into the bag, that would kill the scale...