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  • From: "Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] What to do about Nanking death
  • Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:44:46 -0500

mIEKAL wrote, "I have dozens of Nankings from 2 years old - 17 years old. Everyone of them goes into a state of decline & branches gradually die back. I tend to see the yellow leaves on the bushes later in the season after they are done fruiting..."


My best guess is that either there is something in your soil that your Nankings don't like OR there is a deficiency. Get a plant tissue analysis!
I had blackberry leaves that got all scrunched up so I gathered up a baggie full of them and sent it off to K Ag Laboratories for analysis. The results came back saying the soil was deficient of copper. So I added a smidgeon of copper and solved the problem. Perhaps A & L Laboratories do the same work; I don't know, you'd have to check. A & L charges close to half of what K Ag charges for soils tests.

Jim Fruth
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  • [NAFEX] What to do about Nanking death, Jim Fruth, 07/31/2009

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