Hi all
i have had a satsuma in my yard for about 20 years.
I rarely do anything to it, inluding fertilize, it always seemed healthy.
For a few years i did throw a lot of water hyacinth underneath it.
sometimes some other mulch, thats about it.
It normally produces LOTS of fruit, sometimes taking a year off
Last winter was abnormally cold, very cold.
3 freeze snaps about 25F, 2 of them lasting for days
(it would warm into the upper 30s in the day)
the tree looked bad in the spring.
i gave it a little fertilizer NPK
(it may have been high N, i think thats all i had at the time)
and it just looked worse.
it produced small, thin, yellowish shoots.
it also seemed to get a host of bugs
i know another plant i had, had white fly
i think the satsuma had it also.
i now have "soot" on the leaves.
but, also had what someone said was "leaf miners"
AND...
it had some yellowing of the leaves in between the veins (veins stayed green)
Im not sure if the cold killed some roots ?
or, what to do to help it ?
i have now put lots of compost under it
i foliar sprayed it
with urine and micronutes several times
and gave it some worm tea with humic acid.
it is giving me lots of nice fruit this year
the chlorosis seems to be improving
but, i still have soot and white-fly.
any suggestions ?
thanks
Brad