I have three trees on my property which are tagged by the county as
being over 200 years old. They are full of ball moss on the under
branches. Those branches are not dead by ball moss, but gave ball
moss opportunity as they died. As I said, Live Oak is a trash tree in
that it constantly needs aesthetic pruning and upkeep in order to
maintain that clean look.


On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:44:16 GMT, "Cliff" wrote:

Some of the live oaks are more than 200 years old and have survived nicely
without anyone spraying things on them. I don't think that Sitting Bull and
the boys were picking ball moss either. Ball moss, lichens, and Oaks will
continue to cohabitate with or without us.


"Jim" wrote in message
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Irregardless, if the tree is weakened by other parasites, the ball moss
may
proliferate. Leaves need light. The bark needs to maintain some level of
water content and allowed to dry out. Ball moss inhibits water
evaporation
at the bark.

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Jonny
"Cliff" wrote in message
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ball moss is not a parasite. It will grow just as well on your chain link
fence or stapled to the wall of your garage.

"Jim" wrote in message
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Ball moss and lichen-like growths on the bark itself don't usually harm
trees. Commonly, one will see both on both varieties of oak that is
prevalent in the Austin and central S. Texas area.

However, if the tree has some heavy parasitic insect infestation, is
weakened, and the two piggy back parasites (ball moss and lichen) on
the
tree perceive this as weakening as a reason to proliferate; it will
weaken the tree even further. May even participate in the tree's
death.
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Jonny
"Cliff" wrote in message
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Baking Soda at couple tablespoons per Gallon. I expect you know that
killing it doesn't mean it will let go of the branch and drop to the
ground. It will continue to hang on until it rots but killing it now
will
prevent it from putting out more "seeds". It does no harm to the
trees
or what ever it is growing on.


"Frank" wrote in message
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That time again when my neighbors trees throw ball moss to my trees.
Is there anything besides Kocide that will kill the ball moss?