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[Scott Smith <scott@cs.jhu.edu>]

Sorry about your trees Al.  It looks like a root problem to me.  The reason 
why is the healthy trees look like they had already put on a lot more growth 
this year and these sick trees never got going strongly.  If it was herbicide 
drift they would have had more growth on them before getting zapped.  I had 
several G16 trees that did something similar to that; I made the mistake of 
putting some backup chip buds on them and that rootstock is very susceptible 
to latent viruses.  Some of them struggled on for several years.  A few of 
them lost all the leaves like that but then came back for a bit; all 
eventually died.  There may be a local soil problem around those trees given 
how two in the same spot died.

Scott

On Jun 4, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Alan Yelvington wrote:

> Help.  I'm not a plant pathologist, and I 
> have no clue what is making my trees sick.  
> The onset of leaves browning and croaking is 
> very fast.
> 
> Please watch video for more details:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUAliQOUcNM
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Al Yelvington
> Happy Dog Farm
> Russell, PA
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