White fluffly stuff

911 · Post by **911** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:52 pm

Can anyone tell me what all that white fluffy stuff is on all the plants in my yard? When the boys come in and they have been in the back nine, they have it all over their heads and fur. I went out and looked today and it's on my roses as well as some weeds.

It's getting thicker and expanding and I'm afraid it's taking over. Oh, and I have more spider webs than usual on my plants. But the fluffy stuff is mostly on the stems and trunks.

If you get it on you it's like powder but it doesn't break down.

What can I use to get rid of it without hurting my plants?

EEEWWWW!

:(

minks · Post by **minks** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:55 pm

911 wrote: Can anyone tell me what all that white fluffy stuff is on all the plants in my yard? When the boys come in and they have been in the back nine, they have it all over their heads and fur. I went out and looked today and it's on my roses as well as some weeds.

It's getting thicker and expanding and I'm afraid it's taking over. Oh, and I have more spider webs than usual on my plants. But the fluffy stuff is mostly on the stems and trunks.

If you get it on you it's like powder but it doesn't break down.

What can I use to get rid of it without hurting my plants?

EEEWWWW!

:(

are there poplar trees around.

This is poplar seeds. The fluff helps the seeds travel in the wind.

minks · Post by **minks** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:57 pm

minks wrote: are there poplar trees around.

This is poplar seeds. The fluff helps the seeds travel in the wind.

ooo I stand corrected it may not be that, it may be other forms of pollen from a different tree now that I re-read I see you say there is more to this fluff, ok some plants and trees have fluff and a seed as well in that floaty package there is pollen. Any help? I didn't think so. hehehehe

911 · Post by **911** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:01 pm

Gee. . . .thanks! LOL

But why just on the stems and trunks of small things? It's not on the leaves.

Erinna1112 · Post by **Erinna1112** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:04 pm

Considering your location, it's probably cottonwood seeds. It doesn't get caught on the leaves because the leaves are smooth and dont' have anything for the fluffly stuff to get snagged on.

Alternatively, it could be seeds from some other plant that spreads its seeds this way. Lots of them do.

911 · Post by **911** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:07 pm

If I take some and put it in potting soil, will it grow? Then maybe I can find out what it is.

Will it hurt my roses?

911 · Post by **911** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:18 pm

flopstock wrote: snow?

Ha! I wish!

It's hotter'n blazes out there

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:21 pm

You might have an idea already and not know it!!

The humid south? I'm thinkin' POWDERY Mildew.

Be hard to get rid of if it is. Try not overhead watering your plants.

And water in the morning so it has some slight chance of drying out

before nightime.

Hard to really say without a pic!!

:-6

weeder · Post by **weeder** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:10 pm

It can be aphids. There are all kinds of aphids. Is the white stuff hard? like artificial christmas snow??

ade901 · Post by **ade901** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:44 am

Sounds like woolly aphids. Go to your local garden store and ask for spraying oil. Apply three times at weekly intervals and they will go to another place....

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:38 pm

Asbestos?

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:12 pm

Could be "White Fly" they appear like fuzz and can kill a garden fast.