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What is wrong with my maple?




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What is wrong with my maple?

Tue Jun 06, 2006 12:28 am

I've got an October Glory that I just bought and planted a month ago.....it's very young. What are these spots on the leaves? I went back to the nursery and the other October Glory's have the same spots. A worker there told me it's a normal fungus that isn't harmful and will go away.

Is this septoria?

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Tue Jun 06, 2006 12:43 am

Based on the fact that the brown spots start from the edge of the leaves I would first suspect that some insect has deposite something there. I wouldn't get to excited about the problem.

What I would do is boost the soil a bit perhaps with an organic fertilizer. This will give the tree a fighting chance against whatever the problem is.
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Tue Jun 06, 2006 12:53 am

I'm pretty ignorant to "fertilizing." Can you give me a specific brand or something?
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Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:50 am

Well, I don't promote particular brands but, liquid fish, liquid seaweed, kelp meal, rock phosphate and so on are great fertilizers. I would actually add a little rock phosphate combined with a few handfulls of kelp meal around the feeders (the soil below the outset of the leaves) of the plant.

Water the plant after adding these slow release fertilizers.
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Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:35 am

Is that stuff readily available and garden centers? And do I work it into the mulch and soil, or just leave it on top?

Thanks so much for the information.

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Please Share. Thank you!

 
 
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