In a message dated 4/4/2004 11:40:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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I just rescued a juniper of some kind from a landscaping place ...
it
was a freebie, looking a little funky ... after repotting it and
trimming off the brown crunchy parts I noticed that the green parts
have a fine black stuff on the bark mostly. Looks like mold maybe?
Any
idea what this stuff is and how I can treat it?

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Hi allen, looks you are on the right track. The red residue are probably
the dead remains of the fungi. Be interesting to hear at some stage if you
have eliminated it completely and hopefully you won't get re-infected.
Regards
mart


Ok, here's the update. After my first 'clean up' then giving it 4
days of dry sunny conditions, I "Pressure washed" with the "flat"
setting on my watering wand and putting my hands behind the branches
and foliage for support ... the black stuff came about 90% off quite
easily to reveal nice bright green healthy old growth. I waited a
week, then did another trimming (cut out about 50% so i've got some
idea of where the style is going) and another 'pressure wash' and it
looks great. There was no regrowth of the mold at all, and now i've
got a very hearty healthy juniper with a base about 2 inches in
diameter.