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Please help me save my avocado tree!
Comments (1)You may need to repot it in a faster draining soil. Avocados are usually grown in coastal areas with a lot of sandy soil. Lighten the soil a bit and this will give you a chance to look at the roots. If ant are rooted cut them off until you get to healthy roots and sprinkle with cinnamon, let it sit for a day or so. Then water sparingly until the roots heal....See MoreIs my avocado tree worth saving?
Comments (16)Sure, Patty. I think we are saying the same thing. When I put the tree in in '75 we did water it frequently, and deeply to establish it. But 5 years later we were watering it less frequently. We didn't try to keep it on a fixed irrigation schedule. Trees in the area make it pretty much, almost, without that. It's possible that because the area is a long, miles long, slope that it gets some subsurface water draining off the La Habra hills, and that makes a difference. There might be a water table, much of the year, that the tree can use. Given current water conditions, it's nice to be in a place with an agriculturally useful water table, even a seasonal one. Edit: Our Concorde grape lived off the water table for about 20 years, until one year we really should have watered it, and it did die. This post was edited by johns.coastal.patio on Wed, May 14, 14 at 10:34...See MoreDesperately Trying to Save 2 Rubber Trees
Comments (14)All you can do for the plant now is make sure you don't over-water. The plant was healthy enough that if it's still viable, it will come back from whatever tissues are left that are still living. It might take anywhere from 2 weeks - 3 months to see evidence that the plant is still alive, and during that time the plant will need very little in the way of water. I suggest you get a 1/4-5/16" wooden dowel rod and sharpen it in a pencil sharpener. Push the sharp end deep into the pot near the center - if it comes out darkened or damp from the soil, or with wet pieces of soil stuck to the rod, continue to withhold water. It looks like all the leaves were frozen or suffered severe chill injury, so they will likely all be shed. Right now, warmth is more important than light. Try to keep the plant in a warm spot away from a heat vent where the temp will remain above 70-75*. If you can buy or borrow a propagation matt, it will raise soil temps by about 10*, which would be very helpful (if the plant is still viable). Use no fertilizer until the plant is obviously pushing new growth. Al...See MoreSick avocado tree - need to save the tree and kids' treehouse!
Comments (18)Looks like fungus or disease attacked the branch starting at the wound hole. In the best case it might be possible to save the branch if the cracked bark/dead area is removed along with any soft/decayed wood. Then you could regularly paint on liquid copper fungicide (including under the sides of the rod and on the other side of the rod) until the tree grows around from each side and closes its wound. It would take several years however and no guarantees of full recovery. The next best case you would have to add a wood post to support that corner of the tree house and cut that one branch off below any bit of dead area to prevent disease from reaching the trunk, then regularly paint on liquid copper fungicide until the cut branch closes up the wound over a few years. The worst case is if the tree is deeply infected with any bad disease at that branch, it could spread all the way down to the trunk eventually and kill the whole tree over several years....See MoreSunnyin SanDiego
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