CP - 11-1-2007 at 02:30 PM
Two of the red palm posts of my palapa have developed a fungus sort of growth. It is white, dry and spongy like styrofoam. It pushes up the varnish
like blisters. I scraped it off and applied bleach solution. This seems to prevent it from growing back in the same place but it pops up around the
treated area. Anyone know what it is and what I can do to curb it other than scrape and bleach all of my poles?
Gracias for any advice.
-CP
bajajudy - 11-1-2007 at 03:12 PM
Sounds like there is a fungus among us!
Just being silly. I dont really have an answer.
BigWooo - 11-1-2007 at 03:43 PM
We used to get that stuff on our palm posts at our place on the hill. I figured it was caused from some sort of sap in the palm. We'd have to sand
it off every time we touched up the posts too.
Didn't really pay attention to it at the time, but now that I think about it, seems the white stuff stopped forming after we started using varathane
instead of varnish.
Gnome-ad - 11-1-2007 at 04:46 PM
We had a white fungus rather like you describe on our bouganvillia. The hortoculturist prescribed some kind of copper solution ... ours looked a bit
like a conk that grows on trees in the Oregon forest. Hope you don't have to scrape and bleach everything.
[Edited on 11-1-2007 by Gnome-ad]