I live in Tucson, Arizona, and I have a 25 to 30 year old grapefruit tree. The limbs on the east side and middle of the tree keep dying off one by one, but the limbs on the west side are all doing fine. Tree will also grow a new limb either in the middle or east side of the tree, but after the limb grows for three to eight months the limb will dye over night. The large limbs are also dying off. The leaves will be green one day, with maybe some yellow spotting, and then the next morning the leaves are dried up and the limb is dead. The leaves on the west side of the tree do not seem to get the yellow spots. Any idea what could be occurring with this tree? Thanks, AgentApollo
I have a similar tree about 3 metres tall and I guess about 40 years old and it has suddenly done the same thing. One side of the tree is dying. The leaves shrivel and the branches go white. Hate to lose this tree. What should I do???
hopefully its not a disease or something i would say to air layer on the branches that are still good some citrus does not do well on its own roots but grapefruit and pummelo do pretty good.it may just be that the 45year old tree is old enough to just poop out the younger one not sure . i would try 3 or 4 air layers if there is enough materiel to work with. than if that grows good and you insist on having a taperoot than plant seeds and than graft a piece from the air layer, i would give the air layer probably a year to grow and get good and healthy than take the budwood off for grafting. if you have seedlings already than you could graft pieces of the plant that are still healthy to the seedlings. not sure of any way to make the plant behave right. is it possible that there was a bad freeze and just that side of each of you're plants was damaged more than the other side and has never recovered right
