Whats wrong with my apple tree?
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Comments (4)When were these trees planted? To me, they don't look too bad at all. The leaves are curled but still nice and green. If I had to guess I'd say there's a bit of water stress going on. I'd say your trees' root system aren't able to get enough water to keep the leaves from curling, either because there's not enough water or those roots simply aren't established yet. Likely the latter. Don't overdo the watering. I would suggest some slow, deep watering. If you have a 5-gallon bucket, drill a tiny hole on the side near the bottom, fill the bucket, and set it above where the roots are located. Let it drain overnight, the slower the better. You might also find this a good time to do some summer pruning. Those branches look like they could use some cutting way back. That would reduce the workload on the roots and possibly balance your trees' root systems vs their tops. If they were recently planted, the roots likely are behind in development compared to the tops....See MoreWhat's wrong with my apple tree?
Comments (3)A tad difficult to see details. But the brown areas look like a combination of superficial feeding (a long time ago) plus a shortage of water, probably brief and some while ago. In either instance, it's too late to do anything. For the critters, just keep a watch next year and squish when you see them. That said, the amount of critter damage in the images is insignificant for the tree's health....See Morewhat's wrong with my apple tree?!
Comments (6)More branches have started looking bad, so I snipped one off as well as a leaf that has some reddish coloring on the bottom and stopped by OTooles. They think it is blight. They recommended cutting off all the branch parts that are looking bad, disinfecting the clippers after each cut, and then hope for the best. They said spraying now might not help, and could just be a waste of money. So I gave my little tree a pretty good hair cut, taking off all the obvious bad tips as well as trimmed off the tips of all the other branches as well (partly to make it look more uniform, but also as a precaution in case those has some bit of it as well). I threw out all the branches into a garbage bag and put into the trash can. Any other tips on what I might do if it is indeed blight? From the little bit of googling I did on it sounds like it is pretty common for young apple trees, but there are some varieties that are more resistent to it (of which mine must not be!). If my tree doesn't make it after all, I'll be sure to look for one of those! I just hope it doesn't spread to my Peach and Pear trees. And speaking of my Peach tree, I'm actually wondering if that's where it came from. We bought all 3 trees last summer, and the top of the Peach starting looking bad fairly soon after planting it. But then fall/winter came, and everything went dormant, so didn't think much more about it. I did prune that part of the Peach tree several weeks ago, because it wasn't showing signs of growth. I don't remember trimming on my Apple tree after that, though, so hopefully I didn't actually do the infecting ... but not real sure. Guess it's another one of those "wait and see" situations! Marj...See MoreWhat's wrong with my apple tree?
Comments (3)Thanks everyone for the replies. @ken_adrian that is the thing that had me alarmed this particular apple tree usually does not shed its leaves until around mid-September. So I knew there was something wrong with it. After some consideration I think the brown spots was my doing :/ I tried to spray the tree with some "natural" bug killer since there was an unusual amount of wasps circling it, and I think I might have sprayed a little too much. @i_like_pi it does look like it has Cedar Apple Rust. The neighbors have a crab apple tree in the back, and it looks like that tree has the same growths. So I think that tree might have passed the cedar rust on to mine. I plucked off all of the leaves with the growths and so far I have not seen any more growths pop up. So I think I caught it in time. Once again thanks for the help....See Morevgkg Z-7 Va
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