my tree is dying!! help

dangercodered

i have a juniper red cedar i had an arborist look and said it had some sort of parasites and would require injections he refused to tell me what kind of parisites i had and what type of injections i would need he just wanted $250 do u know what type i would need?

Eric Frei

I'm just wondering did you pay the arborist anything for coming to have a look?

We need pictures too, decent ones like I take.

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dangercodered

yes i paid the guy to come out. he said if he told me what was wrong with the tree then i could just fix it myself and he would be out of a job. alls he said was injections for paristes. i also had someone else tell me it could be needle rust? but its a juniper so wasnt sure since it doesnt have needles. do u know the exact type of tree it is? i atached some photos

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Eric Frei

Well that is weird, he gets paid to come out and have a look and tell you nothing?

The second pic of the trunk, that looks OK, that's just lichen on the trunk.

That foliage looks dead and it doesn't look diseased.

Now what killed it?

There's a number of possibilities and you best get a clean sheet of white paper and a magnifying glass.

Get the sheet of paper and hold it under the foliage, shake the foliage and see if any tiny tiny mites fall off. Try both dead and green areas.

Look the foliage over carefully with a magnifying glass, looking for any signs of fungus or rust.

Look over the stems and twiggy parts for any small holes or bleeding/beading up of resin.

That tree is in a group at the end, the others behind do not look as affected, so is that tree getting different wind/sun/rain etc?

There's some blights that can do that too. So it could be fungal, could be mites, could be both.

As a starter without being there or actually getting a direct hit on the pathogen I suggest.

1. make sure soil pH is correct at 6 to 6.5
2. good care, mulch, soil moisture and organic fertiliser
3. soil drench with Imidacloprid
4. spray with copper based fungicide

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dangercodered

thanks i apreciate the help your not the first one to sugest the spray. a land scaper actually saw my tree and said some sort of fuguie was the problem he said spray it too. he also said my soil was really rich. he couldnt identify the tree though!lol .would u know what kind of tree it is??

Eric Frei

I'm in Australia and sub tropical so conifers aren't my best for ID.

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Brent Ferris

It is a variety of juniper. And yes junipers have needles, and they are often very sharply pointed!

Looks like mite damage, and a miticide will work, but ususally by the time you see the problem is almost too late to fix the problem.

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