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Problems with eucalyptus

SchalaislostSchalaislost Posts: 41
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Hello!
Does anyone know what's wrong with my eucalyptus tree? Leaves keep turning yellowish brown, sometimes with black spots, and then fall off. 
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  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    My first thought is that they are very large and fast growing trees and so need a lot of water, have you been watering it enough? The compost looks quite dry.
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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Are you keeping it indoors? - it won't last if kept inside - trees need to be outside.
    Have you checked if it's pot-bound?
    Have you fed it at all?

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  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Wrong plant, wrong place.

    Bin it and try something easier.
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Is this the same tree? 

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  • SchalaislostSchalaislost Posts: 41
    Dovefromabove said:
    Is this the same tree? 
    Yes! 
  • SchalaislostSchalaislost Posts: 41
    Pete.8 said:
    Are you keeping it indoors? - it won't last if kept inside - trees need to be outside.
    Have you checked if it's pot-bound?
    Have you fed it at all?
    It's outdoors, fed, not pot-bound at all. 
  • SchalaislostSchalaislost Posts: 41
    Uff said:
    My first thought is that they are very large and fast growing trees and so need a lot of water, have you been watering it enough? The compost looks quite dry.
    Thank you - I checked and the soil is moist
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Ignore @bede, it is perfectly possible to keep a Eucalyptus in a pot, but yours needs to be in a bigger pot, needs regular watering and will need a good pruning each Spring. I have had several in pots for many years.
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  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    Even in a pot, it will be much happier if you can get it outside for as long as possible. They don't make very good houseplants , in my experience. 
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Yes, it must be outside.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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