Hard to tell just from that picture but when developers put those trees with no room to develop a proper root zone, it never ends well.
cactustho
Since you didn’t provide any context, the usual shade tree problems: planted too deep, tree ring, lawn starving the roots, compacted soil, irrigation strategy isn’t deep infrequent watering, specimen isn’t suited for local soil/microclimate
Burnet05
We are in drought conditions so not established trees need additional water.
austintreeamigos
What’s your watering schedule? You need to be watering a tree like this twice a week at least.
You also need to do a Root Collar Excavation or pay an arborist to do it.
What does the other side of the trunk look Iike? Could be just a weird camera angle but there’s some suspicious looking swelling on the bottom 2’ of trunk. You’ve got some old gnarly damage just above the first branch as well.
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Hard to tell just from that picture but when developers put those trees with no room to develop a proper root zone, it never ends well.
Since you didn’t provide any context, the usual shade tree problems: planted too deep, tree ring, lawn starving the roots, compacted soil, irrigation strategy isn’t deep infrequent watering, specimen isn’t suited for local soil/microclimate
We are in drought conditions so not established trees need additional water.
What’s your watering schedule? You need to be watering a tree like this twice a week at least.
You also need to do a Root Collar Excavation or pay an arborist to do it.
Here’s a decent DIY video
https://youtu.be/WmYYvx-UIBU?si=V2mF9JU-EbSmmHMO
What does the other side of the trunk look Iike? Could be just a weird camera angle but there’s some suspicious looking swelling on the bottom 2’ of trunk. You’ve got some old gnarly damage just above the first branch as well.