Nectaplum - bubbly leaf (forum)
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Ari starts with ...
Planted this nectaplum about 3 months ago. It is probably 2-3 years old and was kept in a container. It flowered already and there are little fruit (I removed most of the flowers to promote root/branch growth).
The problem is 5-10% of the leaves have this weird bubbly leaf thing. What is this? What should I do?
Thanks!
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Time: 24th March 2011 4:36am
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Nick says...
That is an extremely annoying fungal disease called Leaf Curl. To control it you have to spray the tree thoroughly with a copper fungicide or lime sulfur at the very early stage of budswell before it becomes ineffective. It would probably be good to destroy the diseased leaves and fruit when they drop and water and fertilise well to reduce stress on the tree.
Hope this helps :)
Time: 24th March 2011 7:16am
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adamus says...
You can also just take the leaves off one by one. it happens with a lot of the stone fruit when they are young, and stressed from being transplanted. This is done easily when they are small trees. You might get a recurrence the next year with a few leaves, but take them off as well.
Time: 24th March 2011 7:23am
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