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Is it city water? Maybe too much chlorine or other salts in the agua?
Quote from: spaugh on August 19, 2018, 01:55:33 PMIs it city water? Maybe too much chlorine or other salts in the agua?I water the plants using ground water from my well. I don’t treat the water with anything since it’s only used for watering the crops. Production doesn’t seem to be affected that much since the plants tend to produce a good crop. The main ones affected soursops and canistels which at times produce undersized leaves that look the bulb on a pitcher plant than anything else and whose production is affected. I only harvested two soursops from the tree this year since it’s infection. Fruit was standard size(5lbs and uniform in shape) so it doesn’t seem to affect the fruit quality. I’m considering cutting down all the infected trees and burning them. Then I can simply replace them. Most of the infected trees are a few years old but I have grafted backups in the nursery.
Quote from: Nayelie321 on August 19, 2018, 03:58:17 PMQuote from: spaugh on August 19, 2018, 01:55:33 PMIs it city water? Maybe too much chlorine or other salts in the agua?I water the plants using ground water from my well. I don’t treat the water with anything since it’s only used for watering the crops. Production doesn’t seem to be affected that much since the plants tend to produce a good crop. The main ones affected soursops and canistels which at times produce undersized leaves that look the bulb on a pitcher plant than anything else and whose production is affected. I only harvested two soursops from the tree this year since it’s infection. Fruit was standard size(5lbs and uniform in shape) so it doesn’t seem to affect the fruit quality. I’m considering cutting down all the infected trees and burning them. Then I can simply replace them. Most of the infected trees are a few years old but I have grafted backups in the nursery.That seems like a bad thing to do if you are not sure there is actually a disease present and what it is. Do you have a TDS meter to measure the solid content in the water and an EC meter to get an idea how much salts are present?They have those tools very cheap around 12$ on Amazon or ebay if you are the los angeles you could get some and take them back to the farm in Mex.