CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Well it seems our weather has brought out a couple nasties this year...
I have been doing the usual CDF required weed eat and clearing on properties per my norm and this little hairy viney thingy has been here and there where it has not been before.. :what:
Been doing some research after a client informed me it was parasitic to the grasses... I thought.. well I will do some looking into it when I can .. No biggie. Like the grasses are really under threat here.. Lax I must say for myself.. But hey we have shat loads of grass right?
I came across a field of it today taking out all kinds of brush... Poison oak, grasses, sour berry and deer brush (ceanosis) etc...
Welllllll ... I found it.. lil bugger.. Cuscuta... Nasty sucka... SO I have been asked to brush part of this field.. This stuff is invasive as all get out and will/can take trees too... I am now sterilizing all my equipment as of tomorrow. Advising the client I have to burn the shat... Not chip and also going to recommend he NOT use a dozer to clear with... Inform the Ag commission about it..
Here are a couple sites on it...
Scroll down on this ones page to the dodder...
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/plnov99.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuscuta
Anyone see this stuff or have to deal with it before? Your input would be great and I will keep postings as I mess with it...
I have been doing the usual CDF required weed eat and clearing on properties per my norm and this little hairy viney thingy has been here and there where it has not been before.. :what:

Been doing some research after a client informed me it was parasitic to the grasses... I thought.. well I will do some looking into it when I can .. No biggie. Like the grasses are really under threat here.. Lax I must say for myself.. But hey we have shat loads of grass right?

I came across a field of it today taking out all kinds of brush... Poison oak, grasses, sour berry and deer brush (ceanosis) etc...
Welllllll ... I found it.. lil bugger.. Cuscuta... Nasty sucka... SO I have been asked to brush part of this field.. This stuff is invasive as all get out and will/can take trees too... I am now sterilizing all my equipment as of tomorrow. Advising the client I have to burn the shat... Not chip and also going to recommend he NOT use a dozer to clear with... Inform the Ag commission about it..
Here are a couple sites on it...
Scroll down on this ones page to the dodder...
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/plnov99.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuscuta
Anyone see this stuff or have to deal with it before? Your input would be great and I will keep postings as I mess with it...