On Jul 24, 10:50*am, "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

Pull off a leaf, take it to Yamagami's Nursery on DeAnza near 85 and
ask them.

Sounds like peach leaf curl to me.

Susan B.