Ant wrote:
On 5/16/2015 6:39 AM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
Here are two photographs:
1. http://i.imgur.com/v10OE56.jpg
2. http://i.imgur.com/n0w5Kno.jpg
Bad dirt? Not enough sun? Too much sun? Not enough water? Too moist?
Other plants and trees, near them, are doing fine though. They are
in Southern California near a house.
What are they?
What is the soil like? (texture, depth, pH, content)
I have no idea. They were there since my family moved here (months).
From what I saw and touched, it gets wet during the nightly water
sprinklers. When dried from the sun during hot times, then they get
hard. I know there are snails, Argentine ants, roly pollies (pill/sow
bugs), lizards, coyotes (rarely), etc.
You need to find out. With no information about the conditions any
diagnosis of the problem will be a wild guess.
How moist is it? (scrape away the bark and stick your finger in)
OK, I will try that. I will need to find a way to rip its barks.
I mean the bark chips on top of the soil not the bark of the tree.
The first looks about to die. Why are so many branches cut off? What
direction is the wall from #1? How many hours a day does the
sun hit the wall now?
That is why I was posting. It is not doing well. It got too big and
interfere with this adjacent walkway.
So you hacked it down to little more than a stump? Before pruning it is an
idea to find out what the plant is and how to prune it.
Before you cut it what did it look like?
I'd say the sun shine in this
area from the late morning hours to late afternoon/early evening
hours. This area gets way too bright for me to close my window
blinds, so I could see my computer monitors. The sun rises behind
this white wall among the huge hill with green trees, plants, etc.
Brick or stone walls reflect a lot of heat and store it until after
nightfall. Perhaps the plant is getting baked.
The second doesn't look too bad but the photo is overexposed and I
can't see the colour of the leaves. What seems to be wrong with it?
Ignore the green leaves in the background. The tree is pretty has no
leaves like the other one. :/
I don't know what that means. Are we talking about the same plant?
Facing this wall, it is about 58 degrees (NE) according to iOS v8.3's
compass.
This is not clear to me. Do you mean the wall run NE to SW and so you are
standing on the SE side of it? Or if you face the wall you are facing NE,
that is you are on the SW side of it? I'm confused.
The point is if the sun is mainly on the other side of the wall a short
sun-loving plant will never get enough sun to grow well. If the sun is on
the same side as the plant it may get baked on hot days. How serious this
may be depends on the plnat, the soil and how much water it gets.
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David
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