Good afternoon!

One of my loquat's leaves are shedding. Last summer, I added about 1/2 inch of soil since roots were exposed. After the very next rain, some older leaves got brown tips (looked burned) and now they are turning yellow and falling off... Here are few pictures:




I removed that soil layer couple months ago... Is there anything else I can do?

Thank you!!!

My loquat tree arrived with some leaves with brown tips. I think it could be shock. The new leaves look healthy though.


I never add soil after planting a tree in ground unless it is right after planting. It may reduce oxygen to the roots although .5 inches soil elevation change is not very much.

I do not think there is much more you can do. Your tree should recover with time. Loquats are very tough plants.

Those look to me like normal, old leaves, preparing to fall off as they should. Your younger stems look healthy, with good new growth coming out at the tops. So I'd not worry about it.

TRI and Dr. Manners,

Thank you very much for your comments! I will not worry then. I was never growing loquats before.

Beautiful new growth. I picked up a 7ft tall loquat tree a week ago. After potting it up it started to brown up and drop a few of the lower leaves. I'm chalking it up to just having to deal with the change of atmosphere, room humidity is at about 50%. It's currenlty sending out flower panicles on all 6 tips!

-Luke

like Malcolm said, it looks fine but (correct me if I'm wrong) it does look like some heat stress and salt burn on the tips. I imagine it got pretty hot there this summer. It will push through fine and look great by Spring. Grafted? What variety?

Chris,

this is a seedling of unknown cultivar... It went through the summer ok while loosing 7-10 leaves per week. I did think it got some salt burn. There were pots with citrus seedlings around the trunk, so loquat was getting some ferts from citrus. Perhaps, this is what caused these burns.

Thank you for your input!

I would recommend getting your hands on some mature budwood next spring and grafting it. In these parts, it takes a loquat about 8-10 years to fruit from seed. In comparison, my second year grafted tree is flowering right now.

Big Jim is an excellent variety if you can get your hands on it.

Chris,

thank you! I will definitely look around for budwood!

Hope you've got it resolved. My brown leaves did look different from yours, and after 4-5 days, it has not yellowed a single leaf since. It probably dropped about a dozen leaves in total. Oh and i miscounted, there are actually 9 of 10 stems about to flower! variety is yehuda.

-Luke