07-01-2016, 05:44 AM
Kalakoa, good morning to you sir and thank you for providing another important thread regarding this ROD. Very sorry to hear that your property has been infected with the ROD, start cutting and burning the dead branches. Your soil has been contaminated and the ROD fungus spreads from tree to tree within the root system, it also spreads by water, insects, and wind. This ROD may also be affecting other trees or crops in the area, the studies are still ongoing for this. If we don't find the source or cause and then try to correct it, I am afraid the ROD may return at anytime or spread to what ever you decide to reforest with.
P.S. Be very careful around your remaining healthy Ohia, if they receive a broken branch or twig they will be much more likely to be infected with the ROD. This ROD also can lay undetected in healthy Ohia for 1-3 years before showing signs of dying. Take plenty of pictures of the healthy Ohia you have left before they to become infected, in 6-8 years it will be much different. Jmo.
P.S. Be very careful around your remaining healthy Ohia, if they receive a broken branch or twig they will be much more likely to be infected with the ROD. This ROD also can lay undetected in healthy Ohia for 1-3 years before showing signs of dying. Take plenty of pictures of the healthy Ohia you have left before they to become infected, in 6-8 years it will be much different. Jmo.