Reduced leaf mass

[18 stoner]

Been to price a job today and the customer asked me to have a look at all the trees on the property.

 

Very wide variety of species that mainly look healthy apart from, Plums (green and purple), apples and cherrys. All appear to have a reduced amount of leaf.

 

I`d be grateful of your opinions, hope you can see from the poor pics from my phone!

 

The worst cherry;

 

 

One of the better cherrys, but with an amount of yellow leaf;

 

 

Green plum;

 

 

More to follow....

[18 stoner]

One of the purp plums;

 

 

Another;

 

 

This one had definate signs of die-back;

 

 

As i say, the apples seem similar but i dont seem to have any pics of them:blushing:

 

Any clues?

[Dean Lofthouse]

I'd say lack of nourishment Pete.

[18 stoner]

Yeh, thats what i thought first Dean, but how does it explain healthy shrubs, conifers, maples, rowans, cedar etc, etc growing adjacent?

 

Also the trees are all around a large property, so nothing localised. Even the trees in an orchard are some 50 yards away from anything else.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Has the whole area been newly landscaped Pete?

 

If not new, are most of the tree next to the drive or other area that can be compacted

[18 stoner]

Lot of scaping been done but not recently.

 

Some trees near the works, others not.

[christreeroot]

new looking drive and landscaping + unwashed stone/gravel + root damage = sick trees...

 

Damaged roots - compressed roots and poisoning of roots by gravel....

 

[Marc]

It looks to random to be root damage/compaction, also 18 stoner did you say that some of the trees in an orchard 50 yards away are suffering?

 

Could be viral?

[Marc]

Also the fact it seems to be affecting the plums, apples and cherrys mainly.

Could it be silver leaf or something similar?

 

Are there small holes in the leaves?

[18 stoner]

Cheers so far guys, as you all mention lack of nutrition and/or soil compaction were the first thoughts. But yes Marc, the orchard is in another part of the property.

 

One of the plums is well away from any of the landscaping. There is also another in a neighbours garden that is suffering, that obviously hasn`t been disturbed.

 

Your comments are all valued. I`m baffled!

 

It would be nice to give the customer some feedback.