is poison ivy out yet in central NC?

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I haven’t seen it, but I haven’t been anyplace recently TO see it, due to the virus pandemonium.
That said, one of my boys got drug out into a trail bike ride through the thick brush today and now he’s all worried about it.

I’m thinking it’s not out yet. Hope I’m right.

‘course, the ticks are probably out.
 
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My son got into something on Badin Lake last weekend. Im no doctor, but it looks like it to me
 
Oh yes!!! It is out and I nearly walked into some yesterday whilst conversing with AAA. Poison oak too!

Watch your step out there.
 
It's been out here for weeks. I'm forced politely asked in a way that does not allow me to decline to spray for it around the compound. :(
 
oy veh. Well, thanks for the heads up.

I think I won’t tell him on the off-chance he didn’t get in it. I told him how to clean up, so I’ve done what I can preemptively.
 
All over the place. I was wading through it today cutting branches to get more light to the food plot. I'll be going back out in the next week to spray them.
I found what looks like a large poison ivy trees :eek: turns out they're Box Elder.
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I didn't know there was a time it wasn't, but I was definitely inches from a good bit playing hide n seek with the kid a couple weeks back.
 
Beef15 said:
I didn't know there was a time it wasn't, but I was definitely inches from a good bit playing hide n seek with the kid a couple weeks back.
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It dies back around here in winter.
 
I have ticks and poison ivy....
lucky me.....
 
bigfelipe said:
Well the leaves do, but you still have to watch those furry vines!
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I stay the heck away. I got in it so bad when I was my boys’s age, I mean in August with nothing on but gym shorts and tennis shoes, sweaty, wrapped it all up around my wrists to pull it out of my dad’s chain link fence. Egad.
And I worked in a hot warehouse after school every day. Just made it worse. Miserable.
 
My son was just texting with his friends about it. He said one of them wiped his hindquarters with it on a Scout camping trip years ago. I know that kid too. Only he would do that, lol.
 
@Pink_Vapor you are right about those box elders. I was up north somewhere the first time I saw what I was sure was PI trees, but one of the locals straightened me out on it. You can find box elder in central NC but I don't ever remember seeing it where I grew up near the coast.

It never used to bother me until I got a good dose of it and had to get the shots decades ago. Now it seems every contact just makes it worse. Fortunately I haven't had any in at least a decade. Boy Scouts teach the Scoutmasters not to have the boys downwind of burning poison ivy because it has the same effect on your aveoli as it does your skin.

There's a YouTube out there somewhere that sort of illustrates that the active ingredient, urushiol, is a lot like invisible axle grease in the way it gets on you, tracks to other people and surfaces without you knowing, and is difficult to wash off (takes a real scrubbing, a typical shower won't do it). But if you do get it off within a few minutes, you don't usually get much of a reaction.
 
Yes it is. Me and my better half have already had a bout with it this season.

It was the worst she has ever had .
 
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Cold shower and soap that breaks down oil if you think you been exposed but yes its out.
 
Box elders, if I remember my Botany from the 1970's, is a maple and has opposite leaves while poison ivy has alternate leaves. They do look quite similar.
 
Oh yeah, growing like the weed it is. Got into some of it this afternoon while weedeating the road ditch.
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It never used to bother me until I got a good dose of it and had to get the shots decades ago. Now it seems every contact just makes it worse.
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No kidding. Worst case I ever had was in January. I got a new pocket knife for Christmas and was playing in the edge of the woods. Found what I thought was a grape vine, so I cut it off at ground level with my new knife and made a Tarzan swing out of it. By the time I got back to the hose my left eye was swollen shut. My face looked like the Great Pumpkin. Had to take shots for it for 2-3 weeks. That was probably 55 years ago. Now every time I get close to the stuff I start to itch.
 
bigfelipe said:
Well the leaves do, but you still have to watch those furry vines!
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And watch for roots when you are digging anything in the winter. Ask me how I know.....lol. Worst case I think I ever had...
 
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Charlie said:
Box elders, if I remember my Botany from the 1970's, is a maple and has opposite leaves while poison ivy has alternate leaves. They do look quite similar.
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That’s interesting, I cut a branch down yesterday and noticed the seeds were just like a maple.
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I moved to Raleigh in ‘72, grew up playing & hunting the woods and had never seen/noticed one before. They’re all over this property and grow many sucker branches that grow horizontally looking just like mature poison ivy.
I first noticed one when I was clearing paths and stopped just before it hit my face.
*edit add* I found this example of box elder wood. It's clear coated. I've got two to drop.
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http://www.props.eric-hart.com/tag/box-elder/
 
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Boxelder makes beautiful stuff. I too thought I had a poison ivy plant until it put on whirly jigs like a maple (as @Charlie stated, they are a maple). Then noticed the big boxelder it was growing under.

God awful plant is out in full force this year. Waded into a waist high pile of it just to find a damn manhole Friday.
 
Well, the good news is, apparently the boy didn’t get in any of it Saturday, which is good since this is exam week.
 
Does anyone have a secret to neutralize the oil at least temporarily. I dropped a rotten sweet gum tree last weekend with a huge ivy vine going right to the top. I’m very allergic to it but need to get the trunk cleaned up with the vine.
 
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Does anyone have a secret to neutralize the oil at least temporarily.
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No.
If you get the oil off your skin in <2 hours you shouldn’t have a reaction. I’m highly allergic, have walked through naval high poison ivy in shorts and sandals without any rash.
Suit up, long shirt, pants, boots, safety glasses. If your using a chainsaw, try to manipulate the log so you can cut with the top of the bar to throw the chips away from you. Be very aware of where the ivy chips go.
When you’re 1.5 hours in, stop. Wash the clothes in the washing machine with xtra soap and in hot water. Take a bottle off Dawn to the shower and clean up with cool water The oil is clear, and sticks like tar.
Do not burn the vine, the smoke will make your lungs blister, very bad.
 
fieldgrade said:
I haven’t seen it, but I haven’t been anyplace recently TO see it, due to the virus pandemonium.
That said, one of my boys got drug out into a trail bike ride through the thick brush today and now he’s all worried about it.

I’m thinking it’s not out yet. Hope I’m right.

‘course, the ticks are probably out.
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My oldest son was in the mountains Saturday, He is highly allergic to poison ivy and came back with a nasty case on his legs. On Sunday he had to go to a Prime care and get some steroids. If it's in the mountains its in the Piedmont.
 
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dman24 said:
Does anyone have a secret to neutralize the oil at least temporarily. I dropped a rotten sweet gum tree last weekend with a huge ivy vine going right to the top. I’m very allergic to it but need to get the trunk cleaned up with the vine.
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Call me chicken, but after getting in it bad from head to toe forty years ago I can spot it from 75 yards. I personally would hire that out if there is a local landscape crew you can get to handle it..
 
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Variable said:
My oldest son was int he mountains Saturday, He is highly allergic to poison ivy and came back with a nasty case on his legs. On Sunday he had to go to a Prime care and get some steroids. If it's in the mountains its in the Piedmont.
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We somehow managed to dodge that thankfully. Hope it clears up for him.
 
I always heard that the original Lysol breaks down the oil good. I am not very allergic to it, but when I was clearing a road on the property I have now, I was cutting through vines as big as my wrist and ripping them out of trees, cutting the stuff with a weed eater and running a chainsaw on vine covered logs. Every couple of hours I would go down to the creek and take a whore bath with the Lysol. Only got a little patch between my fingers. Not sure where I originally heard that, but if I get in a bunch clearing land, I always take a shower and wash with Lysol. Course it could just be it makes you smell so bad the ivy gives up!
 
Remshooter said:
I always heard that the original Lysol breaks down the oil good. I am not very allergic to it, but when I was clearing a road on the property I have now, I was cutting through vines as big as my wrist and ripping them out of trees, cutting the stuff with a weed eater and running a chainsaw on vine covered logs. Every couple of hours I would go down to the creek and take a whore bath with the Lysol. Only got a little patch between my fingers. Not sure where I originally heard that, but if I get in a bunch clearing land, I always take a shower and wash with Lysol. Course it could just be it makes you smell so bad the ivy gives up!
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I'm not sure what a whore bath is but i got another good chuckle. " ...whore bath with the lysol"
 
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