Mimosa Trees - who wanted them? **MAIL BY 12 TODAY 7/6 LAST CALL!**

[HennysMom]

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No kudzu... NNNOOOOO kudzuuuuuu

kudzu...It's terrible stuff I tell ya!!! With the hight humidity down here in south Alabama the kudzu will actually latch onto the humidity and grow skyward several hundred feet....low-flying crop-dusters have to be careful not to run into a fresh patch that sprung up over night, otherwise it'll be the first heavy frost before we can find the plane. When we were kids we were camping out about an 1/8 of a mile from a big patch...had a heavy fog that night and the next morning the tendrils were creeping over our sleeping bags....almost didn't make it out of there...we could hear it coming after us as we fled the woods. Terrible stuff, I tell ya, plum'terrible....

OMG - that stuff sounds like something out of a horror movie!

No thanks.. I'll take mimosa any day of the week over kudzu...

Ya'll keep that crazy stuff down there... I dont have it here on my property!

 

[chicks rule]

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Hi, Got my seeds today, Thank You!!!!!

 

[WriterofWords]

Yay!! I got my seeds today thank you so much!!

 

[JupiterFarmer]

I got mine yesterday and did a little happy dance at the mail box haven't planted yet should do it tomorrow.

Thank you soo much hopefully the free rangers will love it once they let it grow

 

[mamaKate]

As long as the mimosa lovers are assembled, I have a pest question about mine. This is the second year that one of them has been covered in little webby caterpillars. Last year I trimmed them out but this year they're way out of reach. They shed dead leaves and bug poop all over everything plus ruin the look of my pretty tree. Does anybody know how to get rid of them-- in a chicken safe way?

 

[OlliOlliOlli]

Do you have any more mimosa seeds? They're a popular tree around here for landscaping...I've always wondered what those were, they're so gorgeous!!!! I live in zone 8B.

 

[HennysMom]

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sounds like Tent Catepillars to me (gypsy moths is the outcome) - only way to get rid of them is to spray them with something or get them out of the tree and kill them. They are a pest to ANY tree and will kill it quickly.

 

[HennysMom]

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I will have to go out to the garage later today and see if I have any left - I may have a few pods left. I've had 2 other people PM me and ask for seeds as well.

PM me your name and address and if I have enough I'll send some to you. I'll let you know later this afternoon

 

[Bridget399]

I have a pod from my Pap's old house. His tree is beautiful, and not too big. I don't know how long he had it but I would say well over 10 years.

I was wondering if I should "scratch" my seeds with sandpaper before I start them. (I am going to grow them inside for a year or two.)

If anyone was wondering about the zone of where they grow, I am in zones 5 and 6, and while they are sometimes hard to start, once established, they do just fine.

 

[equine623]

Got my seeds too, just wanted to say thanks