I have 6 and all have lost every leaf except 1 and it’s lost 90% of them. My pawpaw are in my yard and get better care than all my trees. I water those about every 5 days. My biggest are 8’ tall and still haven’t made fruit. Mine are in a terrible location. About 4” of sand and almost impenetrable sandstone under that. The heat and poor soil are why they dropped leaves. Plus the stupid moles digging up the roots. They’re highly attracted to moist soil during droughts.
I was watering every other day but changed to daily once we started hitting 100F consistently. These are located in a lot next to my house within reach of my garden hose.
@@MattPatterson1411 I probably spend an hour minimum every day on my trees because I have so many. Too many. Watering, killing weeds, killing grasshoppers, trapping gophers (easy) (moles are much harder to trap) spreading mulch, fertilizing, mowing. Fall is when I work the most when it’s pecan harvest, culling, bagging and selling and fighting off the crows. This dry, hot weather took its toll on my pecans. Probably not fit to harvest this year. I can’t water my big pecan trees. It would cost more in electricity than I’d make on pecans. I bet next year will be bad also because these trees were so stressed this year. I’ve never seen my trees shed leaves and nuts this early in the year. I have some trees I have to haul water to in my truck because they’re too far from a water source.
I have 6 and all have lost every leaf except 1 and it’s lost 90% of them. My pawpaw are in my yard and get better care than all my trees. I water those about every 5 days. My biggest are 8’ tall and still haven’t made fruit. Mine are in a terrible location. About 4” of sand and almost impenetrable sandstone under that. The heat and poor soil are why they dropped leaves. Plus the stupid moles digging up the roots. They’re highly attracted to moist soil during droughts.
I was watering every other day but changed to daily once we started hitting 100F consistently. These are located in a lot next to my house within reach of my garden hose.
@@MattPatterson1411 I probably spend an hour minimum every day on my trees because I have so many. Too many. Watering, killing weeds, killing grasshoppers, trapping gophers (easy) (moles are much harder to trap) spreading mulch, fertilizing, mowing. Fall is when I work the most when it’s pecan harvest, culling, bagging and selling and fighting off the crows. This dry, hot weather took its toll on my pecans. Probably not fit to harvest this year. I can’t water my big pecan trees. It would cost more in electricity than I’d make on pecans. I bet next year will be bad also because these trees were so stressed this year. I’ve never seen my trees shed leaves and nuts this early in the year. I have some trees I have to haul water to in my truck because they’re too far from a water source.
They look good, this heat is brutal. Where are you? I am in Missouri, getting Temps over 100 just about every day.
I’m in NE Texas near Paris. I had been watering them every other day but changed to daily once temps started to hit 100+ consistently.
@@MattPatterson1411 113 degrees here today, Not much getting done here today, lol