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Potted Olive tree keeps getting yellow leaves?

j_humphrey2000j_humphrey2000 Posts: 4
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Hi, I have an olive tree which is in a fairly big pot in the front of the house which is south facing, I have had it for about 2 years, the first year it done pretty good but this year a lot of leaves have been turning yellow and when you touch them fall off easy, i recently took off all yellow ones that were on it, that was about 2/3 weeks ago and on looking today there is about another 15 or so leaves that are yellow again.

I have googled this and come to the conclusion it seemed like it might be getting over watered maybe?

I am confused though because it gets watered with about 1 - 1.5L of water maybe once per week, maybe a little more, i guess it had rained a bit as well, I thought it might be getting under watered but these symptoms seem to be too much water is that right?

I am finding it a bit hard to judge what i am best to do to help it if anyone can help please?

Regards

James

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  • CharlotteFCharlotteF Posts: 337
    Do you have a picture of the leaves? My olives suffer with similar but the leaves develop spots caused by a fungal infection, peacock spot. We mainly pick off leaves but are experimenting with spraying a potassium bicarb solution this year. If you've never/rarely fed it, consider giving it a seaweed feed also.
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