Red Oak tree losing leaves
Steve
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Comments (8)Thanks for all your helpful suggestions. I believe that the foliage loss was due to over-cropping. You see, I have no experience with pomegranates and this young tree only produced one or two pitiful fruits in the past years. I was really excited to see it covered with blooms in the spring. Why I think it's probably over-cropping is that the foliage loss is mainly limited to the branches bearing fruit. The other ones (mainly on top) have healthy green foliage. So what should I do not to let this happen again? Should I pick off some of the flowers in the future? How about pruning the tree?...See MoreOak Trees losing new growth
Comments (7)annie: If the trunk diameter is 4-5 feet, you can bet the Oak tree is more than a century old. That's a very large diameter for any Oak; do you know WHAT KIND of Oak you have? So many different varieties. The shape of the leaf will give you at least a clue, and may be definitive. When I was a child, my favorite Oak was a Chestnut Oak, because it had the biggest Acorn of any Oak in my area (and could very well have the largest Acorn of any Oak, anywhere). We used to make pipes from the Acorns, by hollowing out the Acorns, then sticking in a straw. We could pick up recent cigarette butts by the bus stops, where people had to discard large butts when they saw the bus coming; then we'd empty the tobacco into our "pipes", and get quite ill toking on the tobacco, at about 10 years of age. Chestnut Oaks are so named because the leaves look like Chestnut leaves, with serrated edges. Great spreading branches, easy to climb. Oaks like the Willow Oak--their name derived also from the small, willow-shaped leaves, had smaller branches, and many of them, and were always too thick and tangled to climb at all. Red Oaks in our area keep a number of their leaves intact through Winter--about 1/3 to 1/2 of them, in my area. You've probably noticed them--they turn brown (tan), but remain on the tree. After Evergreens, Red Oaks are important trees for birds, for shelter (shelter from snow and cold Winter wind)....See Morebig oak tree losing its 'tips'?
Comments (9)Shucks, yagottalove the squirrels! I find them HIGHLY ENTERTAINING -- especially when they're chasing each other through the high oak limbs in some mating ritual (usually more than one male fighting over a female) and one of them -- PLOP -- drops out of the tree almost ON TOP of you, like one did to me a month or two ago... and my little Tater Tot (half chihuahua/half Jack Russell, ALL WOUND UP) was only about 20 feet away, and took off like a RIFLE SHOT after that stunned squirrel which just BARELY made it back up the tree before TT got to him, lol. Tater Tot routinely runs out the back door and makes a BEELINE for where he THINKS the squirrels are (and sometimes I watch him RUN RIGHT PAST where they ACTUALLY ARE, lol)... Then when they get up in the tree, he sits on the ground and looks at them and barks and barks and barks! Cats, too! Back when I was still silly enough to put up bird feeders the squirrels could DESTROY, I occassionally would SHOOT a squirrel who had destroyed one... Made me feel bad, so I started putting up squirrel-proof feeders and/or ones they couldn't reach, and also occasionally some ears of dry corn for THEM and made my peace. Things are better that way. Now chipmunks -- Sooooo cute, UNTIL you have a dozen or so living in your back yard... THEN they're another story -- they'll tunnel into your house (or come in through the dryer vent), dig all kinds of ankle-breaking holes in your yard... So long as you have A CAT or DOG in your yard, you're OK... But the 8 years we didn't have one, it was IMPOSSIBLE... I HAD to start trapping and relocating them! Jeff...See MoreBur oak losing leaves
Comments (15)I'm in cedar park and we're loosing leaves on our oaks like crazy, which is in turn making me crazy since the leaves are terrible on sidewalks, and don't break down when they blow under other plants, so you have to go in after them. No large growth spurts, just lots and lots of rain, and a location that doesn't get as much sun as it could. (4-5 hours a day, if we ever get a day with some sun. I'm thinking it's a leaf spot/ rust of some description, because when I sprayed it with ortho, it cleared up briefly, but then with the additional rain it's come back with a vengeance. When we get paid on monday I'm picking up some more Ortho and dousing the heck out of the tree. I've had enough with ugly leaves....See MoreSteve
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