Anthracnose... DOH!

I increased the humidity around the trees and now I have to deal with a fungus called anthracnose. I didn't realize it but the black spots on the bottom of Edward's leaves was the fungus. It spread but Edward was pretty resilient.

Julie #2 got the worst of it. Pretty much all of her leaves became severely infected. Only a few of her leaves look okay. Most of her other leaves look like they're dead or dying. But the stems so far remain green. I discovered that Neem Oil is a good fungicide and so happens that I have Neem Oil (from Dyna-Gro) that I bought a long time ago to battle wooly-mites on my orchids. Hurray. I am hoping it has already stopped the progress of the fungus.

Poor Tebow looks sad. I repotted him so the root stock was lower into the grow medium. The roots look distressed for sure. Tebow is wilting simply from its roots not working. I'm also misting Neem Oil on Tebow as you can see some of his new leaves are damaged from anthracnose.

Roots deeper into medium.

TEBOW is in the house!

FedEx quietly left the package from Plantogram on my doorstep. When I opened it I found Tebow (and a cherry tree) in good shape (for a plant that was in a box for 5 days). I got Carrie and Glenn in two days and they look bad compared to Tebow. Shipping in pot is definitely WAY better than bare-root.

A look at the graft...

... and we can see its a wedge graft. Cool. I think.

The roots look great. I accidentally tugged at Tebow when extracting him from the pot and I could hear some of the roots ripping! DOH! I hope Tebow doesn't hate me.

Here is Tebow in his own quiet hydroponic container. He was grown a bit crooked and I am trying to straighten Tebow out by tightly tying a stick (with green gardener's tape) to the stem. I'm not sure how long I leave it on before Tebow actually straightens out?