On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:50:30 -0700, "The Ranger"
wrote:

I recently planted two very healthy, very vibrant Gold Cot apricot trees.
The two saplings were prime specimens, good leaf color, excellent spacing on
each leaf, with limb strong limbs, and a straight stem. The rootballs on
both were also very healthy looking.

I planted them in where they will receive sun from 9am to approx. 2 pm every
day. Watering, at first, was often to allow the plants to take to their new
ground. I also spaced them ten feet from each other.

Things were going well until this morning when I looked closely at one. The
new-growth leaves upon it's left side are curling with the upper 6-inches of
the tree's new growth brittle and bare of any leaves.

I think the disease is verticillium dahliae and was hoping for a way of
assisting the apricot through this trying time.

The Ranger


I don't remember where you are but check out the extension office in
your area.
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/Extension/index.html
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USA
North Carolina Foothills
USDA Zone 7a