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Lissa starts with ... Hi all. My once healthy and productive pawpaw is now semi naked with yellowing leaves. I've tried searching for possible causes without success. Any suggestions? I've given it some potash (potassium), epsom salts (magnesium) and dolomite (calcium).
| About the Author Lissa Strathpine Qld 24th September 2011 4:35pm #UserID: 3797 Posts: 189 View All Lissa's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 24th September 2011 5:51pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Lissa says... I'm in Brisbane John - we've had a pretty dry winter this year. A friend sent on ominous link to the DPI website about some nasty ringspot disease with some similarities, but I don't think it's that (or I just don't want to think it's that!). http://www2.dpi.qld.gov.au/horticulture/5333.html Don't forget green pawpaw is almost nicer to eat than ripe pawpaw (I found the winter fruit not as nice as the summer fruit though). You can grate it for a salad, roast chunks of it with your meat, or put it in stews/casseroles. One of my fav "veg" now. | About the Author Lissa Strathpine Qld 25th September 2011 7:24am #UserID: 3797 Posts: 189 View All Lissa's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author amanda19 Geraldton. Mide West WA. 25th September 2011 12:17pm #UserID: 2309 Posts: 4607 View All amanda19's Edible Fruit Trees |
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amanda says... Had a quick look and found these mentions: http://www.abc.net.au/rural/content/2006/s1548920.htm http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NHpXMg3OwEcJ www.ogtr.gov.au/internet/ogtr/publishing.nsf/content/papaya-4/%24FILE/papaya.rtf+paw+paw+crinkly+virus+images&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au But you may need to troll thru leaf images using the Image search function...(I am on satellite broadband - so it costs me too much to download all the images - sorry..) Might be worth sending the image to your Agriculture dept or equivalent...it doesn't look very nice to me..? | About the Author amanda19 Geraldton. Mide West WA. 25th September 2011 12:29pm #UserID: 2309 Posts: 4607 View All amanda19's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Gregory MacCarthy says... Hello Lissa! I hope this finds you well. I have had many problems with leaves on my papaya trees turning yellow and dropping off. When it is very dry here and the town water is not running, my trees suffer, lose their flowers and leaves. The leaves turn yellow and fall off, leaving only a few large leaves at the top of the tree. They love water but the soil needs to be well drained. They definitely don't like to get their feet wet. We are now at the end of the rainy season and I have lost a lot of trees to root rot because of a heavy clay soil and a high water table. The leaves turn yellow, fall off, a few little scraggly leaves are left at the top of the tree, then the whole mess shrivels up a dies. Good luck. | About the Author Gregory MacCarthy Bolgatanga, Ghana 28th September 2011 3:19am #UserID: 5700 Posts: 9 View All Gregory MacCarthy's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Lissa says... Hi Amanda and Greg Amanda, the first link you posted sure sounds like my leaves, but no pic to judge by. The second link is for this forum discussion and the third link no longer works, unfortunately. Greg - I am indeed well! Thank you. I have added pics of the three main trees. They don't appear to be dying and two look to be improving with some unaffected leaves. Curious. Apart from the Red which I paid for, the others were all freebies from seed dropped by the birds, so I suppose not a huge loss. There are more babies coming up around the yard if these do die off.
| About the Author Lissa Strathpine Qld 12th October 2011 6:46pm #UserID: 3797 Posts: 189 View All Lissa's Edible Fruit Trees |
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amanda says... Wow...too hard for me Lissa! Pic 1 is really interesting as it looks like the plant is coming good...? pic 3 still looks sad tho..? I saw a pic, very much like your very first one you posted, in the Gardening Australia mag (sometime in the last yr maybe..)- which is just what made me think of it... The only time I have had really deformed leaves like that is when thrips or aphids get stuck into the baby leaves - and they grow out all deformed - or - a viral infection. I am very curious now Lissa! :) | About the Author amanda19 Geraldton. Mide West WA. 12th October 2011 7:23pm #UserID: 2309 Posts: 4607 View All amanda19's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author amanda19 Geraldton. Mide West WA. 12th October 2011 7:42pm #UserID: 2309 Posts: 4607 View All amanda19's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Brendan Mackay, Q 13th October 2011 7:27am #UserID: 1947 Posts: 1722 View All Brendan's Edible Fruit Trees |
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BJ says... We've lots of papaya viuses around Brisbane at the moment. Here is the fact sheet from GA from last year, when mosaic virus hit hard: http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s3043838.htm | About the Author Theposterformerlyknownas Brisbane 13th October 2011 9:49am #UserID: 3270 Posts: 1552 View All Theposterformerlyknownas's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author amanda19 Geraldton. Mide West WA. 13th October 2011 11:33am #UserID: 2309 Posts: 4607 View All amanda19's Edible Fruit Trees |
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snottiegobble says... My papaya was just like that with yellow mosiac leaves all bunched at the top! I didnt have the heart to cut the top off & just removed all top growths except one. Heaps of sulphate of potash, chicken pellets,& seasol saw the last growth take off & now a year later there are baby fruit & flowers. Its still well protected in a plastic tent every night! | About the Author snottiegobble Bunbury/Busso (smackin the middle) 13th October 2011 9:35pm #UserID: 3468 Posts: 1458 View All snottiegobble's Edible Fruit Trees |
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MaryT says... Umm is this an epidemic? Thanks for offering a cure, snottiegobble. My pawpaw (and my neighbours) are looking decidedly sick, especially when they've been powering away before. I will try to nurse it; first moving it from the relatively exposed position then feeding it and see what happens. | About the Author MaryT Sydney 14th October 2011 8:59am #UserID: 5412 Posts: 2066 View All MaryT's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author amanda19 Geraldton. Mide West WA. 14th October 2011 10:55am #UserID: 2309 Posts: 4607 View All amanda19's Edible Fruit Trees |
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snottiegobble says... I believe there is something about sulphate of potash that helps plants overcome this problem. I also have a black passionfruit seedling that also had yellowing deformed leaves/ tendrils & it was certainly on death row! This spring it has healthy shiny leaves, plenty of tendrils up the trellis,flower buds & already 2 flowers! Again I trimmed back all growth to just one tendril, & fed plenty of S of P, seasol, chook pellets & also B & B. | About the Author snottiegobble Bunbury/Busso (smackin the middle) 15th October 2011 2:38pm #UserID: 3468 Posts: 1458 View All snottiegobble's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Brendan Mackay, Q 16th October 2011 7:54am #UserID: 1947 Posts: 1722 View All Brendan's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Brendan Mackay, Q 17th October 2011 9:16am #UserID: 1947 Posts: 1722 View All Brendan's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Lissa says... Morning all. Thank you for the wonderful productive feedback. I sent the pics to the DPI and a nice fella called Peter called back. Ultimatly, they have no idea what the problem is. Wazza, I don't THINK I did anything different to the plant in pic 1, but it's possible. Thought I gave them all the same thing. I should have kept a diary in my blog. Brendan, isn't Epsom Salts for magnesium? Dolomite for calcium? Have dosed with both for good measure and watered in. I thought Bunchy Top was something that affected bananas only - no? The banana plant near plant pic 3 (worse affected) is fine with no signs of disease. Pawpaw are only shortlived anyway and the two worse affected have cropped well once or twice already. The plant in pic 1 is the youngest (red bisexual) and healthiest. | About the Author Lissa Strathpine Qld 22nd October 2011 8:54am #UserID: 3797 Posts: 189 View All Lissa's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Lissa says... Out of those three photos of plants, two are now dead and gone. Pic 2 - This plant was a very old self sown bisexual yellow. I replanted seed - four plants now about 1 to 1.5m tall. Pic 1 - bought Red fruiting plant. I have no luck with red pawpaw plants - they all die. Pic 3 - is thriving. The warm months brought back a crop of healthy leaves. | About the Author Lissa Strathpine Qld 4th March 2015 5:07pm #UserID: 3797 Posts: 189 View All Lissa's Edible Fruit Trees |
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