RaceFan14 Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Can someone please tell me what the he** happened to my weeping cherry tree? Is there hope?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WMJ77 Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 RIP looks like to me....sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaceFan14 Posted August 9, 2013 Author Share Posted August 9, 2013 Don't tell me that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 http://homeguides.sfgate.com/weeping-cherry-tree-leaves-turning-brown-27271.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 http://homeguides.sfgate.com/diseases-japanese-weeping-cherry-tree-45015.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willow Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Maybe went from weeping to depression? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaceFan14 Posted August 9, 2013 Author Share Posted August 9, 2013 I don't know what happened to it......it was fine one day and the next...this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Wow! I think Bon has it right you are under fungal attack. The wet weather and the suddenness of the decline all point to a fungus. I'd clean up all of the diseased leaves and any dead branches and bag them. Dip your pruners in a 10% chlorine bleach solution between cuts to keep the disease from spreading. You can try spraying with a fungicide and if the tree makes it through the winter start spraying again as the leaves unfurl in the spring. Fungicides work best as a preventive measure. If the tree is still alive in the spring, and it may be as most fungi attack just the leaves, and the weather isn't as wet as it was this year it might be OK. Remove any diseased leaves next year and keep spraying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuBoiser Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 WOW - sorry to say - but it does look like it went from "weeping" to "dying". When you break a piece of the branch, is it dry and brittle? Did you see any worms (like May saw worm) or caterpillars (like tent worm) or beetles (like Japanese beetle) on it this spring or summer? Still, dying that quickly, it almost looks like someone sprayed it with a brush killer. Hopefully you can get a new one at an end of season sale at a local nursery and replace it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaceFan14 Posted August 9, 2013 Author Share Posted August 9, 2013 Thanks Bon and Lavender. Do you have any suggestions for a good fungicide? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Depending on where you live I can stop by and do a Master Gardener call. We don't always do that but for a high value tree I would do it. It's a service provided free by Penn State University. It may be that it can be saved. I wouldn't be spraying it just because you "think" it could be a fungus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaceFan14 Posted August 9, 2013 Author Share Posted August 9, 2013 DuBoiser, no signs of bugs or caterpillars! Like I said, it was fine and it looked like this within days! I planted this tree about 6 years ago and never had any problems with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 If you want to go organic you can try neem oil otherwise just get a broad spectrum fungicide. Make sure it is good for cherry leaf spot. http://www.caf.wvu.edu/kearneysville/disease_descriptions/omchlfsp.html This is the most common fungus disease of cherry trees. You can check for the characteristic purple spots but that tree looks too far gone to see anything. You can try, though. The only way to diagnose it for certain is to put the fungus under a microscope and check the spores and sporangia if present. They are characteristic of different fungi and maybe you would need a mycologist to or plant disease expert to differentiate depending on how much they vary. I can do mushrooms but this is a little bit outside my range of fungi. ps I found my fungicide. Ii is Ortho formerly known as Daconil. It works for what I use it for (black spot and soot mold) but I've never tried it on a weeping cherry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 WOW - sorry to say - but it does look like it went from "weeping" to "dying". When you break a piece of the branch, is it dry and brittle? Did you see any worms (like May saw worm) or caterpillars (like tent worm) or beetles (like Japanese beetle) on it this spring or summer? Still, dying that quickly, it almost looks like someone sprayed it with a brush killer. Hopefully you can get a new one at an end of season sale at a local nursery and replace it. Never thought of brush killer. That's murder! Do you think that a tree could be sprayed like that without getting any of the other stuff that is growing there? I've done it to multiflora roses but I cut them way back first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Some plants are much more sensitive to herbicides and if that's what it turns out to be then it could have come for quite a distance away. Glyphosate is turning out to be much more toxic than we were told. In time it may turn out to be the DDT of our time but only time and lots of independent study will tell the tale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 I'm not sure if the little bits of greenery in the tree are new growth or weeds poking up through. If I don't have a diagnosis by tomorrow then it will go to the Penn State lab. Then we will have an exact cause and hopefully treatment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Mungaknuts Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 hit by lightening maybe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 hit by lightening maybe ya know, that did happen to my lilac bush last year. This year it is completly dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 ya know, that did happen to my lilac bush last year. This year it is completly dead. What were the symptoms? Never saw it happen to a bush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 got hit by lightning, leaves all died within a few days. This year whole thig is dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Was there any evidence of burned leaves, cracked bark, splintered branches? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 branch was splintered and black Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 got hit by lightning, leaves all died within a few days. This year whole thig is dead. That's interesting. You learn something new every day. How tall was it? We have lilacs that are the size of small trees so why not a lightening strike? I suppose that without a piece of it to look at all we can do is guess. I hope the poster now has enough information to make an educated guess after comparing the tree to some of our suggestions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 the lilac is probably around 10-12 ft tall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 branch was splinter Sounds right then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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