What's wrong with my tree? Limbs all sagging,dying. Found odd holes.
rickee54
8 years ago
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Comments (7)Lily, can you provide a photo of where this wickedly thorny branch is emanating from? The front normal branch is obscuring where the thorny branch is coming from. We are all thinking that you've possibly got a (massive) rootstock sucker, but we can't tell unless you can give us a photo of where this branch starts exactly. If it is emanating from below the graft union, it is rootstock, and should be removed. Patty S....See MoreWhat is wrong with my orange tree?
Comments (18)boy i'm going to be the odd one out here hey, maybe i just let this one slip by? your soil looks pretty miserable to me, at the very least it needs lots more organic material added. have you ever had a PH test done? maybe get an opinion from the local plant/garden centre on what they think the soil is missing. most do free PH tests so take a good sample along the sample should be from around 6"s down. to me (and we've planted a lot of citrus in alot of gardens with total success) the citrus looks less than as healthy as it should be, the green is yellowish incipid, could mean wrong PH as well as lack of nutrient level around the plant. as for never using amendments when preparing a planting position for citrus, that is a new one to me and goes against our successes. for one when planting citrus in a poorly drained heavy clay spot (common problem here), we generally dig a whole about twice the size of the pot of the potted plant then we back fill tamping down to minimise settlement to create a planting mound, to create drainage for the feeder roots. all our 6 or 7 citrus in this poorly drained garden are about 4 years old from the pot and all are producing full crops of fruit (have done for 3 years now)on acontinuing basis. we mulch heavily around them we don't feed them, and do very little pruning (probably slack on my part), there is no bug attacks. our ammendment was mushroom compost from the farm, around 3 to 4 bags per planting position. now they are all established we don't water, they get rain water only around 1100mm per year av'. so if that citrus was mine i'd dig it up, dig a larger hole ammend the hole, just in case you get lots of water that is slow to drain i would plant it in a raised position, and mulch heavily. buy yourself a PH test kit if the PH is too acid say then use dolomite at the prescribed rate to amend the hole and the planting area. we are gypsum fans so all plantings here get at least a good dose of it, works in our area for us. that's how we do it i guess. len Here is a link that might be useful: lens garden page...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 happens when you prune 1/3rd of tree limbs on one side only?
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8 years agoA woodpecker? Okay thanks, that explains the holes. Yes, the tree is a Tulip Poplar. We planted three in 2008. The tree in question has always been the healthiest and tallest of the three. We are now holding up several of the lower hanging branches with bungee cords as they are now falling on the boysenberry plant. Everyday we find dead leaves and branches under the tree. And everyday, instead of a shade tree, more and more of the hot California sun comes through. Honestly, at the rate the branches are lowering, I'm afraid the tree will fall before the end of summer. I've include more pictures of one of the smaller trees. You can see how sickly the tree looks compare to the healthy tree.
And the turning of the brown leaves and tulips. There is something definitely wrong with my beloved tree.
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