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Hey y’all.
Just thought Id weigh in on my latest escapades. Well on closer inspection we found the GREAT number of 9 Addy pillars on our U.Urens. If any of you remember my excitement last year you’ll know 9 is SIGNIFICANT. Yes, last yr we had 9 RED ADDIES!!! What a blessing! Ha, me thinks these’ll be Yellows cuz hubby saw a naughty fast Yellow about a month ago "hanging around" these 4 or 5 small U.Urens.
Anywayz I thought right, we need to find some more nettles, to feed these guys so we asked a farmer down the road a bit and with his permission we were all good to go. Well we got about 1/2 a dozen plants of various sizes and 2 of them have plenty enough leaves for the addies, so Im stoked.
There was one plant I’m particularly interested in and a little concerned about. I’d seriously doubt if it had been sprayed but it sure looks munted. Id describe the leaves as:
1/ looking more "leathery" and somewhat "fluffy" than normal, instead of the more or less flat look of a healthy leaf.
2/Some leaves have a "bubbly" appearance in places, sort of like silver beet.
3/ A lot of the new leaves are curled in at the edges as if they have a pillar whose made a tent. On pulling these very gently apart, theres been no pillar in most of them.
Now, I did a rough count up and I found about 4 or 5 more Addies on this plant and 2 caterpillars which I dont know. Im 90% sure these arent addies as theyre long and thin and greenish with no horizontal stripes and the hairs are altogether different and no where near as marked. Im going to post a couple of photo’s for Jacqui to put up and Id appreciate any comments….. to my knowledge all Addy pillars especially when very tiny are darkish quite shiny and you can certainly see the hairs.
Norm Im hoping youre looking on…
Cheers
Swansong
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