by "FarmI" <ask@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Mar 9, 2008 at 06:02 PM
"Don" <mackie.don@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> Folks
>
> as like most of you we are in really dry conditions. I have a garden of
> many different types of Pittospurums and have been limited in water. I
> live in a cool to cold (Adelaide hills) very wet area (normally around
> 1400mm pa rain). I have two 6 year old pittospurums that are starting
to
> die from within. There are branches and leaves within the plant that
have
> gone completely dead. They have dried off to a crinkly brown and the
> branches just snap off. The trees in question are maybe 15 foot high
and
> the rest of the leaves etc look fine. Any ideas?
I don't know if it will help you at all but there has been a number of
widespread re****ts of pittos****ums dieing suddenly in the past few years
(which seems to have co-incided with our drought conditions).
I did a hunt and found this article:
http://www.abc.net.au/canberra/stories/s1914648.htm
The remedy to try would be long deep watering, followed by an application
of
seaweed emulsion and more long deep watering. Dunno how you can manage
that
in drought conditions though. If it is phytophora then I think it might
be
a case of "goodnight nurse".
