Post by kulamauiman on May 1, 2009 18:07:26 GMT
Aloha everyone,
will try to put up some pics this evening. I have a problem with a fairly invasive african grass, kikuyu or Pennisetum clandestinum (which is the fodder and lawn for most of the upper elevations areas of Hawaii). It was growing into my stucco walls. Applied some glyphosate on a non windy day taking precautions (low pressure, large dropplets, etc) to prevent drift from getting to my plants in my adjacent minibog. Looks like some drift did happen. So far the D.capensis "Red" looks like it got hammered. I doubt that there will be any damage on the albinos (planted after the spraying). Seeing a lot of leaf forking and other deformities. Two questions come to mind: 1. being that D. capensis is one of the tougher species of sundews are they just sensitive to small quantities of glyphosate ? and 2. Anyone think they will grow out of it?
petiole and leaf deformations. Almost looked like the petioles were developing spines. Oddly looks like these plants are developing new leaves. Will see how normally they develop. May be long term effects of sub lethal glyphosate. Does not look like it affects flowering.
Mahalo,
Mach Fukada
will try to put up some pics this evening. I have a problem with a fairly invasive african grass, kikuyu or Pennisetum clandestinum (which is the fodder and lawn for most of the upper elevations areas of Hawaii). It was growing into my stucco walls. Applied some glyphosate on a non windy day taking precautions (low pressure, large dropplets, etc) to prevent drift from getting to my plants in my adjacent minibog. Looks like some drift did happen. So far the D.capensis "Red" looks like it got hammered. I doubt that there will be any damage on the albinos (planted after the spraying). Seeing a lot of leaf forking and other deformities. Two questions come to mind: 1. being that D. capensis is one of the tougher species of sundews are they just sensitive to small quantities of glyphosate ? and 2. Anyone think they will grow out of it?
petiole and leaf deformations. Almost looked like the petioles were developing spines. Oddly looks like these plants are developing new leaves. Will see how normally they develop. May be long term effects of sub lethal glyphosate. Does not look like it affects flowering.
Mahalo,
Mach Fukada
