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| My maple tree was green and lush 2 days ago, now all the leaves have dried up and died. Anyone have any idea what is could be wrong with it? |
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- Posted by gardenapprentice none (My Page) on Wed, Jun 13, 12 at 21:48
| Looks like a serious/severe disease or an insect infection, I would reccomend replacing in the fall |
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- Posted by gardenapprentice none (My Page) on Wed, Jun 13, 12 at 21:49
| Looks like a serious/severe disease or an insect infection, I would reccomend replacing in the fall |
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- Posted by gardenapprentice none (My Page) on Wed, Jun 13, 12 at 21:49
| Looks like a serious/severe disease or an insect infection, I would reccomend replacing in the fall |
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| That is something I would definitely get checked out by the local extension office, especially before planting a replacement. John |
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| Just in case, did you just plant this? Do you have a pic of the trunk near the ground? |
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| Did you use a weed killer on the lawn? Maybe string trimmer damage to the trunk, as in completely girdled? It looks too sudden for lack of water to cause this. Mike |
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| Here is a picture of the trunk. We did use weed and feed on the lawn a few nights ago during the evening hours before the leaves died. However our other maple trees were not affected. |
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| I have had this happen on 3 maples and all ended up being girdled by some disease process during our extreme temps and drought last year. Although I watered all trees the same and most made it with no injury, the red maples that were poorly sited on raised (drier) areas were the ones that died. The leaves were literally fine one day, dry looking the next, and all were completely dessicated and shriveled by the third day. I initially thought it was verticillum wilt, but upon close examination, the bark on the trunk in the lower 2' always ended up being completely girdled by dead tissue. This seems an unlikely scenario because your tree is so old and looks to be well established. Did you apply more than the recommended amount of weed and feed around this tree? Which one did you use? I have to think this application had something to do with it. John |
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- Posted by strobiculate none (My Page) on Thu, Jun 14, 12 at 11:56
| let's see...maple...dried leaves staying on the branch...and this one is hard? verticillium. it's a fungus that plugs the vascular tissue. on the positive side it could just be a bad case of physiological scorch. scrape bark in a few different places. you want to see bright green |
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| "let's see...maple...dried leaves staying on the branch...and this one is hard?...verticillium" Let's see...green and lush 2 days ago...totally wasted now...weed-and-feed a few nights ago. Verticillium...seriously?!?!? |
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- Posted by strobiculate none (My Page) on Fri, Jun 15, 12 at 0:07
| brandon...yeppers. and you should have the knowledge and experience to know that. first...verticillium is fast acting. normally affects one branch at a time but i have seen it affect tree before. second...who can name an herbicide used in weed n feeds that causes such damage? the ones i know of present with distorted growth, puckered midribs...not a general wilting where the leaves stay attached. but in the words of others on these forums...i'm a monkey with a shovel. ignorant and useless. by the way, i have amended my contracts...bananas are an acceptable form of payment. |
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| Verticillium wilt usually takes one or more years to take out a tree of that size. In rare, severe cases, larger trees can be taken out over a period of weeks. In no cases, of which I am aware, has it ever been reported to convert a tree from lush green to crispy brown in two days. Multiple herbicide chemicals (and depending on application specifics) could have a much more rapid effect on a tree than verticillium wilt and could result in what we're seeing here. IMO, if the OP's descriptions are accurate, I'd say verticillium wilt could be crossed off the list of possible causes. I also realize that sometimes symptoms can be overlooked until they become severe. Now, we need to know what chemical(s) were used and, possibly, application details to determine whether they are likely to be the problem. P.S. I might consider plants of some of the more rare banana cultivars as payment (-: |
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