I live in Winter Garden, a sub-city of Orlando, on the lakefront of Lake Apopka. The zone here is a 9B. The soil there drains laterally, and water tends to stand in my backyard for an extended period of time if it rains hard enough. If there is any other information required, please let me know. Thank you again for the help!

I found this message from an HP employee on a forum where they were asking how to recover a HP mini it may be of help to you. "F11 does not function on the HP Mini as there is no recovery partition. The unit includes an Operating System DVD and an application/Driver disc. The HP Mini 1000 is unique to consumer HP models, as most other HP consumer notebooks do not include discs and do have F11 function. If these were not included in the box please contact support. For my purposes, I have an external optical drive but I also use Symantec ghost 11. This allows you to create a bootable Ghost thumbdrive. Ghost also allows you to back the image up to a thumbdrive or external USB hard drive. I have images of HP MI, XP, and Win7 and can easily switch back and forth with Ghost, without requiring an optical drive any longer. -Bryan_N Although I am an HP employee, I am speaking for myself and not for HP. Message Edited by Bryan_N on 02-08-2009 12:33 AM -Bryan I am an HP employee " so it appears that some of the HP minis did not have a recovery partition but did come with 2 discs to use for recovery. This is the link to that forum discussion HP Mini however it sounds like there are several versions of the HP mini so not knowing which you have this may not apply if you do not have this version. what is your version and OS?

'Scorch' (leaf burn) has seldom killed any tree and olives are particularly well suited to CA's drought, so I'd have issues with the diagnosis you have received. Pruning, even heavy pruning (and olives are routinely pruned hard), would not make the tree any less drought tolerant nor would it necessarily encourage leaf scorch. I'd be inclined to have the tree evaluated by a certified arborist that knows his stuff or take clear photos and samples to your local extension service office for an accurate diagnosis before leaping to any other conclusions. If the tree is in fact dying, replanting with another olive in the same location is dependent on what the tree is dying from.....some pathogens remain present and active in the soil indefinitely (like armillaria or verticillium wilt, to both of which olives are susceptible) and replanting in the exact location with the same or another susceptible species is not advised. The description of the symptoms could indicate that one or the other of these may be at cause but that would need to be confirmed by a plant pathologist or someone else skilled in these matters. Bottom line is you must get the problem correctly identified before you can make any replanting decisions.

Scale is one of those insect pests that really should be treated. They can seriously weaken a tree and they easily migrate to other plants. If it is a hard shelled scale, spraying with dormant oil won't have much of an impact - that shelled surface makes them pretty much impervious to the spray. It is best to treat these when they are in a far more vulnerable instar stage. And to know when that is, you need to identify the kind of scale - there are dozens. Check to see if these have a hard shell and then post clear, close up photos for an ID. If a soft bodied scale, the dormant oil should work well.