Tree is 2 – 3 meters tall, very small root ball,
Located in south Victoria,
I havnt feed it anything except a spray with seasol.
It has been very cold here lately.
jazza2400
They are gorgeous trees but I have killed so many, despite all the love and care in the world, that I have largely given up on them. I hope yours can come back from this but this generally signalled a terminal decline. Now I have grevilleas, can’t bear the heartbreak anymore of fickle banksias.
Hardspots
Considering you got it a few months ago from someone I’m assuming it’s been replanted or transplanted or something if that’s the case it’s roots were probably damaged and the photos of the foliage look very dry to me I would give it a cut back of about a third make sure the roots are getting oxygen and aren’t saturated with water or covered with heaps of mulch and apply some weak liquid fertiliser you should be okay
wyj123
Are any of the leaves going a bit yellowish? I recently had a baby dwarf banksia menziesii recover from the brink by applying iron chelate as per instructions on a box, got it from Bunnings and after about 2 weeks it is now thriving again. I’ve had 2 banksias died on me in the past few months from what I suspect might have been over watering and damaging the roots while repotting them from the pots hey came from into larger ones. They can be finicky unfortunately..
Edit: forgot to mention why iron chelate. The soil was somehow not allowing absorption of the nutrients necessary for chlorophyll production and the iron chelate helped bind and allow the roots to uptake what it needed.
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Tree is 2 – 3 meters tall, very small root ball,
Located in south Victoria,
I havnt feed it anything except a spray with seasol.
It has been very cold here lately.
They are gorgeous trees but I have killed so many, despite all the love and care in the world, that I have largely given up on them. I hope yours can come back from this but this generally signalled a terminal decline. Now I have grevilleas, can’t bear the heartbreak anymore of fickle banksias.
Considering you got it a few months ago from someone I’m assuming it’s been replanted or transplanted or something if that’s the case it’s roots were probably damaged and the photos of the foliage look very dry to me I would give it a cut back of about a third make sure the roots are getting oxygen and aren’t saturated with water or covered with heaps of mulch and apply some weak liquid fertiliser you should be okay
Are any of the leaves going a bit yellowish? I recently had a baby dwarf banksia menziesii recover from the brink by applying iron chelate as per instructions on a box, got it from Bunnings and after about 2 weeks it is now thriving again. I’ve had 2 banksias died on me in the past few months from what I suspect might have been over watering and damaging the roots while repotting them from the pots hey came from into larger ones. They can be finicky unfortunately..
Edit: forgot to mention why iron chelate. The soil was somehow not allowing absorption of the nutrients necessary for chlorophyll production and the iron chelate helped bind and allow the roots to uptake what it needed.