Steve Kudela
Shohin
Hey folks, haven't been on B/N much lately, I've popped in a few times. I've been kind of bummed out about an incident that occured last year in May. On May 1, on a fairly windy day, approx. 14 mph out of the north, an inconciderate farmer got out in that wind and sprayed herbicide. It was a mixture of Warrent and Grammoxone. Grammoxone is a fancy name for paraquat, a poison 1 element off from Agent Orange that some of you will remember from the Vietnam era. My entire yard and bonsai collection (125 trees plus cuttings and seedlings) The junk blew through the hedge between the north field and the bonsai. 2 trees died within a month, 5 more in the period following. I just tossed another on the dead pile 2 weeks ago. I'm continuing to have issues appear almost 2 years later. Bizarre growth, distortions in leaves, branches leafed out and died off, etc. Do we have anyone on this board who can give me some ideas past what I've already seen as to the long term effects of this stuff? One way or another, I guess I'm just going to ride it out and see how things go. Some trees are recovering, others have grown but exhibiting the strange growth patterns mentioned above. I have taken them to task over it but the insurance company is playing the jerk-around game.