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Duh_Vinci
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Plum tree - sick?

Good morning all!

This year devoted one corner of my lot to make a little fruit tree garden. Some dwarf cherries, apricots, pears and two plum trees.

Every tree looked and looks fine, all strong, all flowered well... All except one plum tree :cry: Two days ago, leafs started become very droopy, and no change as of this morning. Still all very green, but looks very sad with those droopy leafs. It's brother/sister some feet apart looks just fine...

Any suggestions? Any special concoction I can make to "wake it up"?

Regards,
D

The Helpful Gardener
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Location: Colchester, CT

Genus Prunus is famous for it's suceptibility to fungal disease...

A weekly foliage spray of milk to water, 1 to 10, helps set up biological anti-fungal defenses, but is not as good a curative as it is a preventative. Spray them all to prevent a possible further infection...

Is ther a difference in water from the others? Root damage? (Are there truck and cars driving and parking near it?) I'd send a sample to my state extension service right away; usually not much cost and a pretty good take on what the issue might be. OR images here helps a lot...

HG



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