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📍 north alabama (my first spring here)
☀️ 6 hours: morning and afternoon
🎂 planted last fall was 5-ish’ tall currently 6’ tall
Soil: good ole red clay tilled with added soil, mushroom compost, worm castings.
We have had non stop rain for about a month and when it isn’t raining it is 80-100% humidity.
I’m not sure if it is fungus from the rain and humidity.
I don’t want my tree to die 😭
The same fungus has taken over my birch trees, my maple, my gardenias and they are nowhere near each other.
We live on almost an acre.
What do I do for my tree?
How do I prevent this next year?
This seems like something I will be fighting with the weather here.
by Cold-Statement1347
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Maybe the compost has created a bathtub effect and the roots are too moist.
Add about a 1/4-1/2 inch of course sand, or a product like turface, in about a 3×3 radius to the base of the tree to improve drainage of the soil. Rake it into the top layer gently, and potentially aerate the lawn in that area beforehand. Also, I can’t see the base of the tree but make sure you didn’t plant it too deep. You could also use a fungicide, it looks like some type of anthracnose which doesn’t usually kill, but can’t be certain.