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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Nefarious on May 31, 2014, 08:26:58 PM
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Is it just me or does it seem to be everywhere nowadays?
It's growing on everything in my neighborhood. I just don't seem to remember it being this bad when I was a child. Is it because less people are taking care of their yards? More run down properties? Its coming up in my yard, little tiny vines of it. The nearest vine is 100 feet from my house on a neighbors fence.
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There are a few reasons for this.
1. Poison ivy grows everywhere. It is very hardy and difficult to get rid of.
2. If you live in a new neighborhood, think about where it was built. Was a swath of forest cleared to make room for the new houses? If so, there's the key. That is where all the itchy goodness originated from.
3. All plants respond to CO2 levels. Some more than others. Poison Ivy is very sensitive to changes in CO2, and heightened levels allow it to explode. Photosynthesis can occur very rapidly in warm and humid conditions, since the plant doesn't have to "worry" about losing as much water through the pores in its leaves due to more of an equillibrium in H2O concentration (think about why gardeners mist plants). This causes the pores (or stoma) to stay open for longer periods of time to allow more CO2 in.
Heightened levels of CO2 from higher animal populations and car exhaust plus the fact that pretty much anywhere in America besides parts of the Southwest/Midwest are moderately to extremely humid means that you'll be looking at more and more ivy for decades to come.
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Best bet is to look for poison ivy during the early fall months and look for the leaves to change. For some reason, poison ivy's leaves changes before anything else and turn a brilliant red and brown long before the trees change color. This is the time to treat the poison ivy with killer designed for it.
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(http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111101033424/batman/images/3/3f/Ivy.png)
Yeah, better be careful with Poison Ivy, or you might end up with an itchy rash.
*RIMSHOT* :D
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(http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111101033424/batman/images/3/3f/Ivy.png)
Yeah, better be careful with Poison Ivy, or you might end up with an itchy rash.
*RIMSHOT* :D
:lol
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Don't know, don't care. Never been had a reaction to it. Or poison oak either.
Rolled around in it before fights as a kid.
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Don't know, don't care. Never been had a reaction to it. Or poison oak either.
Rolled around in it before fights as a kid.
I bet you lick it as a party trick.
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You can make soup out of it and it's pretty damn good :old:
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Its the North Koreans and when your a kid you have better things to do than look at foliage :old:
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I use vinegar and water in a spray bottle to kill it. It takes a few applications, but I'd rather use it than chemical herbicides.
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I got some gloves and removed the little vines from my yard.
My problem is that we have a fence that has lots of flowering vines on it, Clemantis, Hops, Morning Glory, Hummingbird Vines and I have to remain vigilant and kill it before it takes hold. Every year I find little baby vines and remove them with gloves, removing as much root as I can.
If it ever took hold and I went a year without pulling them it would spread right up that fence.
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When I was a kid growing up in Alabama, I didn't even have to contact it; get close enough was all it took to break out in a rash.
Not all of us are tough as CrazyOrange
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Poison ivy must die :mad:
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propane weed burner does a mighty fine job.
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propane weed burner does a mighty fine job.
Just don't breath any of the smoke.
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Got a cat that does not appreciate having the oily poison on here fur. Rubbed it off on my leg while I was busy shaving in my boxers. I figured out what it was as soon as the blisters started and did not let it spread more. Couple of spots bored in deep and scarred.
Met the cat with a nudge from my socked foot for a month after that. Wouldn't let her near me.
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You couldn't pay me to burn the nasty stuff. If you inhale that even a bit, you're in the hospital for a month, and more exposure means a longer stay or even death. If you're unlucky enough to survive a decent exposure, expect life-long lung problems. Count me out.
You could always try mulching over anything that you pluck out of the ground, and as long as the other plants are well-established, you're in the clear there.
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On my job we use Timberwolf hand cleaner any time we work close to poison ivy. Its the best product we've found as relief. The stuff also works very well as a mosquito deterrant .
www.Timberwolfhandcleaner.com (http://www.Timberwolfhandcleaner.com)
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I've never used timber wolf, but regular soap or detergent should wash away the oily urushiol that causes the release of histamine if used within 15 minutes of exposure.
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We dont really have it around here. It does grow in some places, like near rivers, and wet areas. But those are pretty hard to come by lately.
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We dont really have it around here. It does grow in some places, like near rivers, and wet areas. But those are pretty hard to come by lately.
I have developed some on my forearm, most likely thanks to the dog. Thanks boy! :furious
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I lived in the south for a few years and have yet to see any of it. seen the hand of a friend of mine who moved from los angeles to charlotte when he was pulling some weeds by hand. wasnt pretty.
semp
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_Ivy_(musician) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_Ivy_(musician))
Weird psycho billy chick... Used to hang with the late Lux Interior...
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Got a cat that does not appreciate having the oily poison on here fur. Rubbed it off on my leg while I was busy shaving in my boxers. I figured out what it was as soon as the blisters started and did not let it spread more. Couple of spots bored in deep and scarred.
Met the cat with a nudge from my socked foot for a month after that. Wouldn't let her near me.
Shaving IN your boxers or whilst wearing them? :O :bolt:
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I used to get into it all the time as a kid, until I fell out of a tree into a HUGE patch, I was covered now I rarely get a rash and if I do it's pretty mild, I know it sounds weird but I can walk right into some see that I have made contact and not really get that bad of a reaction, as to if its more common now a days I do't think so Ive always seen it around everywhere here in Georgia. Remember leaves of three let it be! That's just being swampwise.
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It's not that unusual. I've come into contact with it several times in my life... as recently as over the last year. I seem to be immune.
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I've had it on every part of my body, including the face, eyes swollen shut, and even "down there." By far, the worst place to get it is between the toes.
Another good tip is to wash with cold water and soap after exposure; keeps the pores shut.
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I understand native americans had no reaction to it..could even eat it.
Us 'europian' types better not be down-wind of bunch being burned...dying from your lungs swelling and blistering inside you would be nasty.
JGroth
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Shaving IN your boxers or whilst wearing them? :O :bolt:
While wearing. But not long afterward I had heart cath imaging done. They went in through my wrist, but as a precaution beforehand a nurse shaved me IN my boxers so they could do it the old fashioned way if need be.
Three days later when I was working in the yard killing brush I got a bad itch from razor burn and my first thought was ........
poison ivy :)
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It's not that unusual. I've come into contact with it several times in my life... as recently as over the last year. I seem to be immune.
Beware. I was also immune, probably for 45-50 years. Things change, now it does dreadful things to me.
- oldman
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Here in Texas, the plant is protected as a "native plant" so even though you can remove it from you property, it has to be left alone and allowed to flourish if found growing on public property. I'm not allergic to the stuff but my wife is so I treat it like I'm allergic too; this way I don't accidentally spread it to her.
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NorCal height of summer when everything is really dry. You don't just step off a trail to water the bushes. We have poison oak. During the spring it flourishes and sap runs, because that's our green wet time. As things dry out, it's sap turns into a dust that settles out onto the trails and everything around it. Take a trail side leak causing the dust to poofh up. Well, it's hot, your bare legs are sweaty, and the dried sap is in the dust. Many young ladies have gotton the rash in a bad place from stepping behind a bush off the trail. It grows just about everywhere out in the bush. Brush fires can be very dangerous. Supposedly the fire and forestry services have something their people take every spring.
It takes tree hugging and whizz breaks to a whole new meaning if it's the wrong tree in the wrong bushes around here in NorCal.
You can dry out the rash with warm oatmeal. It feels like your sores are being scratched they way you can't with your fingers because you would spread it and make the sores worse. Warm oatmeal sucks out the urushiol the same way it empties your pores of excess oil and dirt. I had a rash on 25% of my body once and had to lay in a bathtub of oatmeal. You just can't trust free firewood here in NorCal.
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Zanfel is amazing once the blisters have appeared. Binds with Urushiol and allows it to be washed away, as a bonus Zanfel contains granules similar to many hand cleaners (which allow you to "scratch" as you apply it ;) ) Had a severe reaction (most of one side of my calf looked like a leathery burn) a few years ago and that stuff was a god send. Be aware though it is a little more pricey than your traditional poison ivy/oak/sumac treatments (between $35-$40 for a one ounce tube) but well worth it in my book.
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LOL poison ivy...pfffttt...
Try Onga Onga : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urtica_ferox
Urtica ferox, commonly known as ongaonga, is a nettle that is endemic to New Zealand. Sometimes known as the "tree nettle", ongaonga has woody stems and unusually large stinging spines, and can grow 5 metres tall. Even the lightest touch can result in a painful sting that lasts several days.
In Maori folklore, Kupe was said to have placed several obstacles to hinder pursuers whose wives he had stolen, one of which was the ongaonga.
Ongaonga is the main food plant for larvae of the New Zealand red admiral butterfly or kahukura, Vanessa gonerilla.
There has been one recorded human death from contact—a lightly clad hunter who died five hours after walking through a dense patch.[1] Acute polyneuropathy can occur due to U. ferox stings.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Ongaonga_close-up.jpg/1024px-Ongaonga_close-up.jpg)
(have been stung once by onga onga, enough for me to be terrified of the stuff)
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LOL poison ivy...pfffttt...
Try Onga Onga : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urtica_ferox
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Ongaonga_close-up.jpg/1024px-Ongaonga_close-up.jpg)
(have been stung once by onga onga, enough for me to be terrified of the stuff)
They have something similar on the east coast here in the USA called stinging nettles. It grows around streams and rivers and is super painful to touch. Thankfully nature has its own remedy called jewel weed which grows in the same spot. Crack the stalk and apply it on your nettles... poof... instantly heals it.
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Yep have something like that in Texas too, known as Bull Nettle. Had a friend who grew up in Chicago visit our place out in the sticks, I directed him clear of a patch as we were walking the property telling him to keep an eye for it because it is nothing fun....he wandered into the same patch later in the day when I wasn't with him :lol :devil
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Speaking of poison ivy, i have now been infected by it somehow :furious