Meanwhile down in the Carolina Zone.....
Still no change in the plants. I have a Myrica cerifera that had leaves dry out then defoliated. Then it started to regrow about two weeks later . No succh luck with the yang meis. Is there any test other than doing a scratch to see if my plant are still alive? I ask because i have a jaboticaba that has been defoliated more than a year but STILL shows green after a scratch.
When the Yangmei are dying, especially the bare root trees, they generally start drying up from the tips of the branches. The branches generally get darker in color and you may see wrinkles on the branches as the cambium dries up.
I’ve had a Jaboticaba (Red Hybrid) completely defoliate on me after a relatively large crop on a very small tree but it leafed back out in Spring.
My large in ground Sabara had a huge bumper crop last year and it lost about 80% of its leaves and is just starting to bounce back.
Simon