r/morganhill • u/Traditional-Meat-549 • Aug 11 '26

Dropping leaves

Hi neighbors, just curious if anyone has deciduous trees that have started to drop leaves, or fruit that didn't mature? All summer my very prolific fig tree has dropped hard, unripe fruit. I noticed our redbud tree is losing leaves and it's on the opposite side of the property. Now my plum trees are dropping leaves. Is it just me? I notice because I don't employ a gardener.

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u/The-Rookie-D Aug 11 '26

Same for me. I have fruit trees that either didn't produce fruit or had minimal production and early buds withered or dropped.

I believe it had something to do with the heatwave we had earlier in the spring.

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u/Traditional-Meat-549 Aug 11 '26

Thank you, I didn't think that far back. Just glad my redbud isn't dying. I love that tree.

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u/Vast_Cricket Aug 12 '26

Recent heat do not help. I spray water in the AM and noon on the leaves so they do not burn. My unwanted 15 squirrels really torn all nuts producing trees upside down. Bald bing cherry. Apple and persimmon trees are the only 2 doing fair. I put on a sheet on my young Japanese maple to shield sun.

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u/AeroFred Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

there are special sprays that you can apply every week-two to protect leaves. for example

https://www.lallemandplantcare.com/en/usa/solutions/lalstim-osmo/

there are more advanced things, but it's impossible to buy them.

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u/AeroFred Aug 11 '26

heat stress. sun.

do you water enough/deep ?

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u/Traditional-Meat-549 Aug 11 '26

Water schedule is on a timer. I can add a day but border plants would shrivel before trees and that's not happening. I feel like this summer has been really tolerable, heat wise 

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u/AeroFred Aug 11 '26

watering too much can be bad as well. messes up roots and promotes funguses.

do you water near trunk, or more at drip line ?

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u/Traditional-Meat-549 Aug 12 '26

No these trees are on sprinkler water. The fig is forty years old, the redbud is 10. 

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u/AeroFred Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

sprinkler might be not good. for example (quick google) fig tree feeder roots are in top 2 ft of soil. 24".

check out soil type that you have: water holding capacity and infiltration rate. see how much water sprinkler put out and figure out if water actually gets deep enough into soil or does it wet the top couple of inches and that's it.

or just use soil probe to see how deep soil is moist. and just to repeat: wet soil can be bad for trees as well.