Hi Folks!
I wanted to say Hi and introduce myself as a novice, anal retentive that loves his citrus and just realized from reading this Forum how little I know!
Talk about humbling!
(Well, I'm glad I found out my real level early on at least!)
I am located in Carmel Valley, CA about 15 miles from the coast and have a great two acre parcel with black alluvial soil on a narrow bench that once was a nut and apricot orchard. It's full of limestone shards, but mostly humus.
To the point, I recently planted a variety of citrus in-ground and noticed that I had a few orange trees (Early Naval and AZ Sweet) that were not only had leaves turning over but seemed to be getting
sun burned as well, developing light brown marks on the back of the over-turned leaves.
Well I was a way for about a week before discovering them and apparently a few of the trees settled and capped the crown of the root ball with fine black silt. This trapped the moisture in the root ball I suspect and was basically both drowning and suffocating the plant.
I have pulled the plants up and re-set them, but the question I have is this:
When plants are both stressed from over-watering as well as sun burned, is it typical for the trees not to recover?
They were particularly healthy trees when I planted them but are decidedly unhappy now, though not losing much leaf or blossom - yet.
Anyone have any suggestions?
And thanks for providing such a great community!
