Sick Lemon Tree (forum)

rinne starts with ...
I have a lemon tree that seems to look very sick. The leaves on the tree are yellow in colour. We thought it might be because not enough fertilizer, but after putting it every fortnight for a month, there's still no changes. Can you help?

Thanks

Time: 6th February 2009 12:28pm

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Jeanie says...
Maybe it has gall wasp, though I don't know if you'd get that down in Melbourne.
Check all thick branches for lumps with a little hole in them. If you find any prune them out and take them away.

Time: 6th February 2009 2:39pm

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Jon says...
I don't know if it is gall wasp but you can definitely get that down in Melbourne.

Time: 6th February 2009 2:48pm

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Jeanie says...
The lumps are the give-away and the little entry hole confirms it. Had them in my grapefruit last year.

Time: 6th February 2009 2:53pm

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rinne says...
we've cut off those branches with the gall wasp already and still it looks sick..we might be missing some.. will have a look again this weekend. Thanks for your help!

Time: 9th February 2009 12:30pm

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billber says...
I can tell that we in Vic do get the gall wasp I had to prune my lemon tree back very hard to get rid of it, that was about 2 years ago.I can't see any sign of a return of the wasp as yet but ihave just seen the first flowers on the tree since the prune.

Time: 9th February 2009 6:04pm

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