We're all Mad Here...🎩
Shohin
It wasn't slimy, about to post today's photos. Not sure if the slugs interrupted it? They were all over last night.
This pest CAN'T be good...? Help
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We're all Mad Here...🎩
Shohin
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LeftHandLuke
Mame
Hard to tell. If they are pollen cones, you should get a health dusting of pollen if you brush your hand over them or give the plant a bit of a shake.
We're all Mad Here...🎩
Shohin
I want to do that, in theory, but if they are bu chance spores I'd like to limit that???
LeftHandLuke
Mame
How are they looking now?
We're all Mad Here...🎩
Shohin
So I watered today and got big plumes of dark powder. Very odd situation. Still don't know if fungus or pollen since some of the yellow stuff and darker end product was also on the woodchips.
Wires_Guy_wires
Imperial Masterpiece
It's not pollen since your plant is holding on to seeds, which means it's female.
Very few junipers are monoecious.
If you spray it down with some soapy water, most spores will wash away with it. Soapy water breaks the surface tension the spores use to stay dry and mobile. It will not get all of them, but a good couple trillion will be knocked down to the soil. Two or three drops of dishwashing soap like Dawn should be enough, and don't hurt your plant.
By the way, about 99.9999999% of all spores (bacterial and fungal) are harmless to humans. So don't bother wearing masks when working with this stuff. It's pretty amazing how much things in nature don't even care about us. The list of microbes that do and the ones that are also naturally present at any given region, can be fitted on less than one whole sheet of paper.
I'm not saying you should rub compost on open wounds, but I do think it's remarkable that so few things are out there trying to eat us.
Very few junipers are monoecious.
If you spray it down with some soapy water, most spores will wash away with it. Soapy water breaks the surface tension the spores use to stay dry and mobile. It will not get all of them, but a good couple trillion will be knocked down to the soil. Two or three drops of dishwashing soap like Dawn should be enough, and don't hurt your plant.
By the way, about 99.9999999% of all spores (bacterial and fungal) are harmless to humans. So don't bother wearing masks when working with this stuff. It's pretty amazing how much things in nature don't even care about us. The list of microbes that do and the ones that are also naturally present at any given region, can be fitted on less than one whole sheet of paper.
I'm not saying you should rub compost on open wounds, but I do think it's remarkable that so few things are out there trying to eat us.
We're all Mad Here...🎩
Shohin
Too easy! Glad it wasn't catastrophic.
