Hydrilla - Coming soon to a neigborhood Lake or Pond near you

Hydrilla is an aquatic plant, native to the cool and warm waters of Asia, Europe, Africa and Australia.

Plants may be monecious or dioecious and can reproduce vegetatively by fragmentation and by tubers and turions (overwintering buds).

Stems branch near water surface. Dioecious species may be up to 30 feet in length and form surface mats. Leaves are toothed, about 3/4 inch long and 1/4 inch wide. Female flowers are small, white and have 6 petals on long stalks. Male flowers are of inverted bell shape, green.

Hydrilla verticillata became an aquatic weed in the United States in the 1960's following release from aquariums into Florida's waterways. As an invasive species, by the 1990s hydrilla was well-established in the southern states where control and management costs millions of dollars each year. Infestations of Hydrilla verticillata have also been detected in California and Washington. Hydrilla has been spotted as far North as Maryland,Indiana, and Delaware.

Members of the Army Corps of Engineers collect herbicide-resistant Hydrilla from Lake Seminole in northern FloridaHydrilla can be controlled by the application of aquatic herbicides and it is also preferred by grass carp. Tubers pose a problem to control as they can lay dormant for a number of years. In 2006 Bishop-Taylor found that Hydrilla has a high resistance to salinity (>9-10ppt) compared to many other freshwater associated aquatic plants. This has made it even more difficult to remove from waterways and estuaries.

Hydrilla verticillata closely resembles two aquatic plants: Brazilian elodea (Egeria densa) and native American waterweed (Elodea canadensis).

Hydrilla has tubers that are 0.2 to 0.4 inch long, off-white to yellowish, that are buried in sediments.
Leaves are arranged in whorls around the stem (generally five leaves per whorl).

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Silt, Sludge and Slime. You need the Muck Digester Pellets!

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Pond and Lake Muck Digester Pellets - Bye Bye Sludge

OK, this is actually quite an exciting announcement to our Blog entitled

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Actually it is gonna sound like quite a commercial for http://www.WeedersDigest.com but in reality I am just giving the documented facts from my own personal experience.

If you have followed my writings, videos and blogs, then you know that my business started out of the need to solve my own lakeshore problems. I never intended that the results that I have found on my 750 feet of lakeshore located just 7 miles from downtown Minneapolis would turn into an opportunity to help others all around the world!

Anyway, I am writing today to tell you of the amazing results that I have just monitored this morning regarding our Muck Digester Pellets.

My WeedRoller (http://www.WeedRoller.MN ) has done an incredible job of removing the muck and weeds in my swimming area - just awesome. So for testing purposes, I chose shut the WeedRoller off for a few days because the wind was blowing in a lot of silty mucky crud. When the winds died, I skimmed off the surface stuff using my Long Reach Rake with the float attached and allowed a layer of new silt and muck to remain blanketing the bottom. It was maybe 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick.

From my dock, I simply dropped in about 20 pellets in the water and watched them sink. As indicated in the video, several small sunfish tried to swallow them before they hit the bottom but they spit them out.

I did this in only 3 feet of water so that I could clearly monitor the results.

That was last night at about 8pm.

When I walked down on the dock this morning to monitor the changes, the thin layer of muck was GONE. Totally GONE. So were the pellets.

It was about a year ago that I first started testing these pellets and at the time, I was tossing them into areas that had very heavy levels of muck and weeds and decay. I really couldn’t measure how much muck was being reduced but it did appear that the smell became less noticeable.

After seeing these very specific and measureable results today, I am even more confident that this is one of the most impressive products that we have been able to bring to the marketplace!

I think that I will continue to encourage our customers to buy the 1 pound sampler package but after seeing this I will have no problem recommending someone jump on in and get started with a 10, 25 or 50 pound supply.

I am pleased to say that “I think we have hit another winner!”

I will write more on this blog later.

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Thanks again for tuning in to my blog about solving my own lake problems.

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