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Comments (4)The yellow film may be pollen from surounding plants, that's a guess. If you watered after planting and mulched that would help the tree, if it's not too late. I mean water good, I think a gallon per foot of tree height. That's what I've always heard anyway. At least 2 inches of mulch, wood is best, away from trunk at least 3 inches so it doesn't touch trunk.If it suddenly gets full sun and didn't before that can shock it a bit. I've killed 2 of these years ago, I finally have a happy one, so don't feel bad. Make sure soil stays moist but not saturated, water when rain isn't really abundant, at least once per week, stick your finger down at least 3 inches under the mulch....See MoreCamellia drought stress
Comments (9)I would not cut it back! Allow your plant to recover normally....if it will recover. Wait until you actually see some die -back before doing any pruning. I wouldn't try to rig up any extra shade, either. It's very tough on evergreen plants to defoliate entirely for any reason. They don't have the same energy storage system as deciduous plants. It will take an awful toll on their carbon resourses to put on new leaves, let alone to respond to pruning. Let's figure out why your plant had such trouble in just one week. Is this a containerized plant? If not, is it very recently planted? What else can you tell us? Where is tbe plant situated? Camellias can take extreme heat, as long as they are in the right location, have been planted properly, and have adequate moisture. I consider Camellia to be very drought tolerant if well and properly established though in drought conditions and crazy heat they'll suffer....See MoreDetailed info on watering drought stressed trees
Comments (12)The first sentence of that site says it all. Semi-arid, few natural trees, IRRIGATION NECESSARY. So lets fight nature and do something that will require great expense and use a finite, precious resource, generally unavailable locally, for the next, oh 500 years or so. Because that's what scientists say is likely, a mega drought in the SW. It has happened in the past, probably several times, and will happen again, we may be seeing the beginnings of it now. Sometimes I wonder if 'Homo' is using the 'sapiens' of his namesake. Living in a "green state", what would I do for my well established trees, and I have a small forest, in the event of a severe drought? The same as I would do in any other natural event such as a forest fire, hurricane, flood, ice storm, or lava flow: absolutely nothing. Let nature take its course, survival of the fittest. Unless Planet Earth gets sanitized by a neutron star or some such event, trees will survive. Maybe not MY trees, but some trees. Or seeds. Somewhere. Young, newly planted trees are another matter, sometimes. If I am able, and depending on the species, they'll get watered for the first year, second at most, and only enough to keep them alive until the rain returns. In 2007, I lost a lot of newly planted stuff to the Easter freeze, and later pretty much everything else to the scorching heat and drought. Watering was futile, so I didn't even try. It was REAL hard for me to watch. Some of the large trees in the area still bear the scars of that double whammy. That year marked a turning point for me, I stopped actively planting my place....See Moredrought stress
Comments (6)Too bad your local officials failed to educate residents about how to identify an ash. Here in Chicago I spent first six years of EAB event voluntarily surveying for private ash trees, then informing property owners about impending doom, well before their trees began declining from EAB. I was not someone telling everyone to treat their ash, only that there were more options than just loosing family tree. I recall during our regions several year extended drought, how one clueless municipal arborist assumed that his communities whole collection of unprotected ash trees had suddenly began dying off from drought conditions in middle of August after loosing leaves. If only this poor sad sack misinforming public, would have traveled to Michigan to learn all about EAB on behalf of his residents. He would have known what he was experiencing was first of four year curve of death, when peak infestation of exponentially building borer populations had become large enough to mortally damage trees as early as August. Or knowledgeable enough arborist to know that Ash had proven to be one of best extended drought tolerant species, surviving some four continuous years without rainfall, sustained from moisture produced by night time dew. Plus Ash literally being one of driest species, whose wood only contains some 12% moisture. Along with Ash only utilizing last three years of xylem for water uptake, and EAB primarily damaging phloem and cambium. Except for fourth instar stage of borers scoring limited sapwood before hunkering down for winter in bit of bored out xylem. Other Arborist were so lacking in basic knowledge during drought years, that they choose to wait before applying drench until drought broke. Afraid drenching tree during drought could be unhealthy. What was unhealthy, was not protecting tree from EAB. And waiting until rainfall in June before finally drenching. Compared to Arborist who were also State certified pesticide applicators, knowing most primary requirement was applying drench product by April, drought be damned. As long as owners watered once before application, and then one or more times after drenching completed. Sure, drought could have very well played a role in a trees decline, along with EAB. But all we know now years after that drought, that not one tree drenched during that period had been adversely affected. While lesser species like Norway Maple and Linden severely hit by drought. Will never be the same again, and continue to partially or fully die off years later. Evidenced by branches who have been continually shortening their elongation rate since experiencing drought years. Plus roots from trees experiencing drought become mechanically damaged when pulling back in dried out soil....See MoreTed (Zone 4) IA
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