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| Help!! My bottle brush are dying. About 3 years ago I moved into this house and the bottle brush were very healthy it looked. I live next to a canal that was covered years ago and now has only concrete pipe. 20 feet from the row of bottle brush is a huge huge eucalyptus. I also have near by, a kind of a Willow tree but medium in size. A mulberry is just 3 feet away also and another one further and it's gone now. I am trying to grow a blood orange tree and it seems the top is dying but there is new growth at the bottom. My bottle brush are in a row along a wood fence I put up when I moved in. I had 12 green and mid sized bottle brush. Now I am down to 6 and each one is starting to die from the top going down. I have been watering all trees but Ithought the bottle brush were drought resistant or tolerant
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u29/Bloodlet2007/S4010075.jpg
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u29/Bloodlet2007/S4010074-1.jpg My pops had dug a little trench along the bottom about 2 years ago and decided t oflood it. Since then my trees have been dying. I tried to do the same also about 1.5 year ago to the mulberry and now its pretty much gone. It looks worse now than in the photo. The photo was taken 3 months back. http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u29/Bloodlet2007/S4010072.jpg Is there anything I can do to save any of them? The other trees are doing fine so far, I have another mulberry that gets watered a lot cause of the grass but I have even been watering the other tree and they are not doing good. I do water the grass with the water from the canal using a pump . |
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- Posted by dan_staley 5b/SS 2b AHS 6-7 (My Page) on Tue, Sep 20, 11 at 15:08
| I'm not sure I can take the time to try and follow the fact pattern, but the bottlebrush are sad from the construction and need full sun. That last pic makes me sad that the poor thing was butchered so. Dan |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Tue, Sep 20, 11 at 18:43
| in photobucket.. copy the HTML CODE.. into where you type.. and if you see the pix on preview ... we will see them right in the post.. NOT the IMG code.. or any other code ... if it were me.. at the appropriate time of year.. and i dont know what that is for your zone.. i would cut them to 3 inches from the ground.. and start over ... and if they did not re-bud and thrive.. i would be done with them ... those are some of the ugliest things i have ever seen .. SORRY TO SAY ... sometimes.. you just gotta chuck it.. and start over .... good luck ken |
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| Probably best not to use just the HTML code provided by Photobucket because of the size of the pictures. That would make the thread hard to read. Here are the pictures added as I have described so many times here in this forum:
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| Like Dan alluded to, I'm a little uncertain about some of your facts. Here are some questions that might help us: 1. How much water are these trees getting? And, how often are you watering them? Have you tested the soil moisture levels at an appropriate depth to see how much water is needed? 2. Why is there no grass around the trees (especially in that last picture)? 3. Is your soil compacted? I sure get that feeling when I look at the pictures. 4. It may be a little late now, but why haven't you mulched around the trees? 5. Why have the trees been hacked back so awfully? Were the limbs dead? |
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| 6. What was the deal about the "little trench" and flooding it? Are you just saying that a small moat was dug around the plant to hold water when you water? |
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| All the trees appear to enter the ground as if telephone poles. Likely they've been girdled by dead bark and/or girdling roots. |
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- Posted by dan_staley 5b/SS 2b AHS 6-7 (My Page) on Wed, Sep 21, 11 at 9:57
| These plants were brutalized then not cared for. Utterly and completely unsurprising that they look like that. It would be similar to hitting someone with a bat 3-4 times and leaving them there, then kicking away the water bottle nearby. Dan |
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