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Getting Rid of Bugs on Apricot Tree?How do I get rid of bugs on an apricot tree?

 

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Leaves on Avocado Tree Turning Brown?I have no idea how old the male tree is, but it is well over 30 feet. I live in Orlando Florida and the tree gets plenty of water and sunlight. It has been very healthy till about 3 weeks ago. Now the leaves are turning brown.

 

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Selective Apple Breeding?What two apples do you breed to make a Granny Smith Apple?

 

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Growing Granny Smith Apple Trees?Do I need more than one Granny Smith tree to get fruit?

 

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Growing a Peach Tree from a Pit?I'm a first time peach planter and I just wanted to know, but how far down do I need to plant the seed?

 

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Lemon Tree Seedlings Have No Branches?Why do my seedlings grow tall with large leaves, but none have branches? Should I cut them back and inch or 2?

 

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How Long Before an Avocado Tree Flowers?I have a tree which is ten year old. It is not flowering. So I assume it is not old enough for flowering. Is there anything to do for that, like pruning or something else? My place is a hilly region with a tropical climate.

 

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Avocado Tree With Branches Low on Trunk?I have a 5 ft tree in a pot. It has branches growing about 8 inches above the soil. It looks like where it was grafted. Are these suckers and what is the best way to get rid of them?

 

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Varieties of Apple Trees?How many types of apple trees do we have and how can one know the difference?

 

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Apricot Tree Lost All Its Leaves?A few months back I bought an apricot tree (about 5ft tall), from Home Depot. I am in 10a zone (so.CA). Now at the beginning of August, my apricot lost all foliage (no leaves). What could possibly have caused it? I thought, apricots are evergreen.

 

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Pollinating an Elstar Apple Tree?We currently have an Elstar apple tree and would like to know if it is better to get another apple tree or a pear tree for pollination?

 

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Avocado Leaves Turning Dark Brown and Fall Off?Why would a 7 month old avocado plant's leaves turn dark brown and fall off? Then new leaves come on and do the same. It's in a 5 gal. bucket with good drainage. What am I doing wrong?

 

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Avocado Grown from Pit Stopped Growing?i have grown an avocado plant from the stone in the fruit. Once I planted it, it grew really quickly for some time, and then just stopped. I moved it into a better sun position and it grew some more.

 

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Growing Apple Trees?I would like to know, how to grow an apple tree. My husband would love to plant this kind of tree, but I am not sure how difficult it can be. I don't want to have wormy apples. I have heard that the tree needs to be sprayed, to prevent this.

 

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Avocado Trees Not Setting Fruit?I have three avocado trees. They were grown from seeds and they are very tall. They are about ten years old and in all of that time, they only gave avocados one time. They all produced avocados at the same time and a lot of them, but they haven't since then and it has been two or three years.

 

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Peaches Don't Ripen?We have two, from pits, peach trees. I hand thin the peaches as they grow. They get a little larger than a golf ball with some color, but never fully ripen. I fertilize twice a year and spray as needed. What do you think?

 

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Fruit on Apple Tree Very Small?I have a dwarf apple tree, it was planted years ago and I don't know what kind it is, but the apples look and taste like a Granny Smith. The problem is that they are very small. Does it need to be pollinated to make the apples larger? Could it be a crab apple tree?

 

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Cutting Back an Avocado Tree?Should I cut back my avocado? It's 2 feet tall with 9 leaves on the very top, but none anywhere else. The ones further down on the stem don't grow at all and just fall off. Should I cut it back to 6 or 8 inches and hope for the best?

 

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Growing a Honey Crisp Apple Tree?How do you get a honey crisp apple tree to bear fruit?

 

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Avocados Smaller Than Usual?I have a 40+ year old avocado tree. It has always done very well, but this year the avocados are smaller than usual and seemed to have stop growing. The tree looks fine. I tried to pick one to see if it would ripen, but no luck.

 

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Growing a Peach Tree from a Pit?I recently was given a beautiful peach; it was sooo good. I really want to plant the pit in some soil and grow the pit into a beautiful peach tree someday.

 

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Growing Golden Delicious Apple Trees?I have a dwarf golden delicious trees with brown on most of the leaves and on some of the apples. What do I need to do? When? When is best time to prune this tree? It is about 12-14 ft. tall and is about 4 yrs. old.

 

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Growing Papaya?How do I plant a papaya tree and where to plant the tree?

 

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Cherry Tree Oozing Sap and Losing Bark?I'm so grateful to have found this site. My cherry tree, newly planted in April with good watering has a spot where the bark is peeling badly and is separating like a wound. The soil line has an area where amber colored sap is excreting.

 

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Growing Custard Apples from Seed?Can you grow custard apples from seed and how do you go about it?

 

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Apple Tree Not Flowering?I have 4 apple trees all in a row. 3 have blossomed, but one is just now getting it's leaves. Why would this one tree be so behind in it's growth from the others?

 

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Newly Planted Loquat Tree Is Losing Leaves?I just planted a loquat tree which is 11 feet tall with a 5 inch trunk.I water it daily, but I'm losing leaves at about 40 per day. Is this common or should I be watering more?

 

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Loquat Tree Has Curled Leaves?I started a loquat tree indoors from seed and it is now 2 feet tall. It is green and growing well, but the newest leaves are "cupped". Instead of lying flat the tips curl downward. It gets plenty of water and I fertilize it regularly.

 

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Avocado Leaves Curling?I have two avocados in two of the same type pots, with the same soil, and the same watering schedule. I let them dry (about a week or so) and then deep water them till the water comes out of the bottom of the pots.

 

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Yuley Breadfruit Tree Drops Fruit?I have a yuley variety breadfruit which when it fruits, the fruit never sets and they fall off from the tree. They only come to the size of an apple and then fall off.

 

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Scales on Fig Tree Leaves?What can I spray on my fig tree to get rid of the scales on the leaves? The scales are like little shell.

 

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Date Palm Fruit Small and Dry?My date palm tree produced fruit this year that is small, dry, and inedible. Please help me.

 

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Organic Solution for Fruit Flies in Citrus Trees?Does anyone have a natural organic remedy for eliminating fruit fly in citrus trees (oranges and mandarins)? I live in Perth Western Australia. Thank you.

 

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Are There Green Plum Trees?Are there green plums or only greengages?

 

Planting Cherry Pits in Tanzania?I live in Zanzibar, Tanzania and have brought back some cherry pits. Can they grow in this hot humid climate?

 

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What Does a Bing Cherry Sapling Look Like?I put some Bing Cherry pits in a flower pot with another plant. I want to know what a Bing Cherry sapling looks like so I can see if it's the pits or weeds?

 

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Lemons Falling Off the Tree?This semi-dwarf Meyer lemon tree is losing the fruit. Can anyone tell me why? It had hundreds of blooms. It set many lemons, and now more than 3/4ths of them have fallen off. There are still several larger fruit hanging on.

 

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Peach Tree Not Leafing Out?My peach tree does not have any leaves and it is at least six months old from the shop. It is about 2 feet in height and looks quite healthy, but I am afraid if it does not leaf it will not bear any fruit.

 

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Cherry Tree is Losing Leaves?I have a weeping cherry tree that is about 5 years old. This Spring I had many blooms but now I have very few leaves. Indiana did have a very wet spring.

 

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Gray Brown Spots on Loquat Tree Leaves?I have a 3 year old loquat tree about 8ft tall in my backyard. It does not have flower/fruit yet. It has gray-brown spot on its leaves, especially the younger leaves since last week; and the amount of spots has been rapidly growing on more leaves.

 

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Something is Peeling the Lemons on My Tree?We have a lemon tree and this last week we have discovered over 26 ripe fruit on the tree destroyed partially or completely by some sort of pest. Most of the fruit is partially peeled with no apparent damage to the fruit, a few others have been peeled and eaten.

 

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Pruning a Pear Tree?We just bought a home that had to be refurbished, inside and outside. We have two big old pear trees. The pears are small and discolored. At the top they're bigger, but too high to get. Can the trees be topped out?

 

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Cleft Grafting a Mango?When cleft grafting a mango, does the scion have to be bright green or dark green? What I mean is does it have to be new or an old scion? Also, how much do I water the mango tree after grafting it?

 

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Keeping Bugs Out of Apples Naturally?How do I keep the bugs out of the apples on the tree, without using harsh chemicals?

 

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Growing a Dwarf Fig Outside?How can I protect a dwarf fig tree that is planted outside to get it through this winter? This the first year it's outside in the ground.

 

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Brown Spots on Peach Tree Leaves?What can I do about brown spots on my peach leaves?

 

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Lemons Are Less Juicy and Have Brown Patch at Stem End?Why are my lemons from the lemon tree getting less juicy and are getting a brown round patch on the stem end? I always have very juicy, large, and seedless limes/lemons. I don't know what happened this year!

 

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Apricot Tree Drying Out With New Leaves at Base?I have an apricot tree that is now completely dry except for the bottom, where there are leaves coming out. What can I do to bring it back to life? We water it and have given it plant food. It produced a couple of apricots and then no more.

 

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Something is Eating Leaves on Grapefruit Tree?Something is eating away my new grapefruit tree leaves. I spotted a swallowtail butterfly caterpillar at one time and removed it, but there still seems to be something going on. I carefully inspect the leaves several times a week and can't find any evidence.

 

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Kansas Sweet Cherry Tree Not Leafing Out?I planted a Kansas sweet cherry tree last fall and it is now mid June and it has not leafed out yet. What to do?

 

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Cherry Tree is Withering?My cherry tree is withering a bit in the recent sun. It was planted in April as a 5 foot tall plant. The other plants are doing well, eg. the plum, apple, and pear.

 

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Cherry Tree Leaves and Fruit Developing Black Spots?I have a fruit cocktail cherry tree (4 varieties). This year there are many small black spots on the leaves and they are spreading to the cherries. The first leaves and cherries affected are now dead and the spots are continuing to spread. What could this be and how do I help.

 

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Why Do Lemon Trees Drop Their Fruit?Why is my lemon tree dropping fruit?

 

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What are These Worms on My Apple Tree Leaves?I have a problem with my apple trees. They are 2-3 years old and have done well so far. This year as soon as the green started showing and the leaves started forming, I noticed something bad.

 

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Potted Lemon Tree Leaves Small?I have a 2 year old Lemon tree that I bought last year in a 5 gallon pot. It had lemons on it last year and this year it is flowering, but the leaves are very much smaller than last year.

 

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Passion Plant Has Sour Fruit?I have a very healthy passion fruit plant that is producing hundreds of fruit. Unfortunately, the fruits are sour, although the original parent plant had sweet fruits. Now my plant serves mainly as decoration as the fruit is too sour to enjoy. Is there a means, maybe by way of using specific fertilizers, that will make the fruits sweet?

 

Orange Trees Not Producing Pollen?My potted orange trees bloom, but do not produce pollen dust to pollinate.

 

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Growing a Citrus Tree Indoors?How do you take care of a multi-citrus tree indoors?

 

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My Struggling Orchard?I'm in Toronto, Canada. I just bought a house that has cherry trees, apples, plums planted but not in good shape. Being a novice, I am struggling to read up or seek advice from experts like you.

 

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