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Help! Large Ficus Tree (Phoenix)
Matt27
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Hi all
We are losing hope fast at our house. On 7/26 we noticed our large ficus tree was starting to wilt and lose leaves at a very high rate.
We panicked and called our nursery and had 3 arborist come look at the tree. All 3 said the tree had heat stress. We treated the tree and watered it heavily. The leaves stopped falling.
We went out of town last week and we had someone water for us while we were gone.
Thursday night it began raining leaves again and it it is almost sticks completely.
What is this and why is it happening? If it is heat stress does that cause the leaves to all fall off and if so will they return?
We never had to water the tree this way previously and not sure what to do next.
Thank you for anywho can help!
Matt
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Hi Matt. You are obviously not in the UK where this website is based and I'm very jealous of your pool and sunshine.
Seriously though I really feel for you. It is such a shame to see a lovely tree struggling. I can only hazard a guess that its lacking water and is there any way you can have it watered heavily more often. Is your weather particularly hot at the moment? Maybe any water that has been put on the soil is not getting down to the roots and is just evaporating. Could you try drilling a bore hole near to the tree - not directly by the trunk and dropping a length of wide bore pipe vertically into the hole so that you can water into the pipe and the water will get down nearer to the roots of the tree. I hope you can understand my rather bad description.