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Sick Mango tree???

7 years ago

Hello I need some help... I just purchased a house with 2 mature mango trees on the property. It is in Ewa Beach, Hawaii. It is a very hot dry climate if not familiar. One of the trees is doing very well and fruited countless mangos this season but the other seems to be sick. It is dropping leaves constantly. It also barely fruited this year, and the fruit that it did bare seemed to drop prematurely. I'm not sure if this is normal or a issue I'll attach pictures of both trees.

last one is good tree...

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mango mango
7 years ago
looks to me like not getting enough nutrients, though i am no expert at all
Chrobrego (Orlando 9b)
7 years ago
Just by chance, did you put in any fertilizer stakes or fertilize them when you bought the house? If so, you might have overdone it with the nitrogen. A heavy nitrogen feed and lack of water will cause leaf drop and that kind of damage. Just a guess though. I would water them and pull up any fertilizer stakes asap. They should recover being such big trees.
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