I bought two 6 foot Sapodilla Haysa trees and had them sent all the way to Southern California from Florida. The root balls were bagged in plastic and it took 5 days to get here, arriving on the 3rd of this month.
One of the trees had all old growth and looked good, and it still looks strong. But the second one, and slightly bigger of the two, had probably 75% of it's leaves that were new growth, bright light green leaves, and it look really sad. All the new leaves, were completely limp. So I transplanted them, 24 hours later the new leaves started to perk up a bit, then I added more water and they started drooping again, so I have been really stingy with the water, adding a little only when it starts to dry up an inch below the surface.
So, here's the problem. I've had the trees 10 days, and put the distressed tree in filtered light(85 deg highs) three days ago and the new growth still looks good, all are perked up and show no signs of distress, but all the old growth leaves are becoming brittle, silvery, and falling off. What does this mean? I thought the new leaves would be the first to dry up if the plant was in trouble.
I'll post photos tomorrow in the daylight to show, you what I mean.