SU2
Omono
My county's doing ~1mo of chloramine treatment to clean the pipes, we're about halfway through that right now but after 2wks of it I'd swear that my trees just look less-healthy :/
I'm going to switch to bottled-water for them until the treatment ends, but am still curious to know whether it's likely that was causing it! There's 1 other variable I can think of causing this, though I've got a lot of trouble imagining that it's the case- around 1.5wks ago I put down my first 'extended release' fertilizer, however I'd been giving my trees a strong, frequent intake of balanced, instant-release fertilizer, and the granules I put down were espoma's GardenTone, a 3-4-4 organic timed-release, and I only applied at ~2/3-3/4th the recommended-rate and backed my instant-release fertilizer schedule down a bit, so it's incredibly hard to think that's the cause but I couldn't rule it out so figured to mention it! I've already setup a tester tree with 2x the recommended dosage of GardenTone to see how it fares, if the thing starts getting sick I'll know it's that (and race to bare-root/re-pot the tree that's my guinea-pig here!)
Thanks for any thoughts on this, even guesses would be appreciated!!
I'm going to switch to bottled-water for them until the treatment ends, but am still curious to know whether it's likely that was causing it! There's 1 other variable I can think of causing this, though I've got a lot of trouble imagining that it's the case- around 1.5wks ago I put down my first 'extended release' fertilizer, however I'd been giving my trees a strong, frequent intake of balanced, instant-release fertilizer, and the granules I put down were espoma's GardenTone, a 3-4-4 organic timed-release, and I only applied at ~2/3-3/4th the recommended-rate and backed my instant-release fertilizer schedule down a bit, so it's incredibly hard to think that's the cause but I couldn't rule it out so figured to mention it! I've already setup a tester tree with 2x the recommended dosage of GardenTone to see how it fares, if the thing starts getting sick I'll know it's that (and race to bare-root/re-pot the tree that's my guinea-pig here!)
Thanks for any thoughts on this, even guesses would be appreciated!!