Worsleya problems
Jadeboy48@aol.com (Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:26:43 PDT)

I would think it is SRP responsibility to remove plants from their wires.
You could get electrocuted!!.Call their office and complain to them. I
surprised the fools did not suggest you stand on an aluminum ladder and
scrape/wash the plants off by hand.Russ H

In a message dated 4/1/2013 6:27:01 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
leo@possi.org writes:

Hello All,

I bought one of the above a few years ago. I must have received one of the
self-fertile
clones; the thing blooms and sets seed several times yearly. It also
offsets the way
Hippeastrum striatum does. I have it planted on a bark raft in my carport.

My problem is that the pods usually open while I'm at work, and the seed
blows away.
They sprout on just about every surface, completely covering the big
saguaro in my front
yard to the point I'm worried it won't have enough photosynthetic tissue
exposed. Lately
they are growing on the electric cables, the way I have seen ball moss
grow in southern
Texas or even here in Arizona (Tillandsia recurvata, not a bulb, sorry for
the off-topic
mention but it helps you visualize what I'm talking about.)

Anyway, my local utility Salt River Project http://www.srp.net/ has left a
door hanger at
my house telling me their cables are at risk of breaking due to the weight
of the
epiphytes on them, and directing me to remove them or they will take legal
action. There
are too many to remove by hand, so I have tried Round-Up, but it seems not
to be too
effective. Can anybody suggest a better herbicide? Plus, I don't want to
spray Round-Up
on my big saguaro.

Thanks,

Leo Martin
Phoenix Arizona USA

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