Robert Seele wrote:
HELP,

I have had several (25 or so) larch (collected in northern MN) for the
last 7 years. Over that time I have lost 3 or 4 of them. This year they
are dieing 1 by 1 for the last 2 weeks. It takes 3 or 4 days to go
from nice and green to totally dead. From what I have learend , they
have the "mysterious wilting disease". Does anyone have any other ideas
on what they may have, or any idea as what I can do to stop the bleeding ?


Next time you have a body, do an autopsy. Cut the trunk
straight across about midway up. See if the wood is dark or
"normal" colored. If dark you have a fungal problem that
closes up the xylem, killing the tree. Larch are
susceptible to Phytophthora fungus, among others.

I know of no cure, and even Ortho's "Garden Problem Solver"
holds out little hope.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Nature
encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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