[Arid_gardener] Chilean Mesquite Dropping Leaves

[Ursula Miller]

Sal - Mesquites drop their leaves in winter so that's normal.  Mine tends to
do it later; it hasn't started dropping any yet.  But within a month it'll
be raining those green/yellow little leaves.  So, not to worry, it's just
nature doing it's annual housecleaning.  I don't know about the other
mesquites in your neighborhood.  All the ones in my neighborhood drop their
leaflets.

Ursula Miller
Not a Master Gardener

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Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 4:17 PM
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Subject: [Arid_gardener] Question from Home-Hort WWW page

Hi folks,

Might be having a problem with my mesquite tree of 7 years old. Live at
Tatum & Dynimite N. Phoenix. Landscapers originally planted a 15 Gal
mesquite in my front yard (facing west) with a dripline with a 2gal emiter.
The tree grew fast quick and large, and the watering schedule during summer
set at 4 days a week. I finally I cut the water off about 2 years ago with a
spread of about 25 foot in diameter and about 35 high.

The problem I'm having for the past 2 years is in winter it drops clean all
of its leaves then comes back beautiful in the spring and through the
summer. Others (mesquite trees) in my area seem not to drop leaves like mine
of the same spcies and size. Is it the watering that I shut down the
problem??????.

Thanks Sal

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