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Private looks like it is dying but all around it they look healthy started watering more because they don't get a lot of direct water quit pruning to ...
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Privot issue #878995
Asked July 27, 2024, 10:30 AM EDT
Private looks like it is dying but all around it they look healthy started watering more because they don't get a lot of direct water quit pruning to reduce stress on the. South side lots of afternoon sun.
Denver County Colorado
Expert Response
Upping the water sounds like it is warranted given how relentlessly hot and dry our weather has been since mid-June.
You titled your email 'privet' but with those green stems, the plant looks to me like euonymus. When I magnify your photos, the leaves appear to be covered with insects and they look like Euonymus scale. If I'm correct, I can tell you that euonymus scale can be difficult to control. Here is a link to a fact sheet from Wisconsin Extension that has some photos and management recommendation.
https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/euonymus-scale/
You titled your email 'privet' but with those green stems, the plant looks to me like euonymus. When I magnify your photos, the leaves appear to be covered with insects and they look like Euonymus scale. If I'm correct, I can tell you that euonymus scale can be difficult to control. Here is a link to a fact sheet from Wisconsin Extension that has some photos and management recommendation.
https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/euonymus-scale/
No I bought and planted they are
Cheyenne Privots. Here is a tag still attached.
Here are some maybe better photos on the Cheyenne Privot.
No I bought and planted they are
Cheyenne Privots. Here is a tag still attached.
Thank you for those; they are helpful. I recommend you bring a sample into the Denver Extension office at 888 E. Iliff Ave. and let the horticulturists take a look. Call first before you go down to make sure they are available:<personal data hidden>.
In any event, you definitely need to investigate the roots of that plant because, as you point out, the others are doing fine. It suggests to me that for some reason, the irrigation to that one plant is not the same as it is to the others. It could be a head out of kilter, a plugged emitter, a blocked nozzle - it's hard to know but I would put money on the fact that water is at the heart of the dieback and the mites or thrips (if that's what they are) are secondary.
In any event, you definitely need to investigate the roots of that plant because, as you point out, the others are doing fine. It suggests to me that for some reason, the irrigation to that one plant is not the same as it is to the others. It could be a head out of kilter, a plugged emitter, a blocked nozzle - it's hard to know but I would put money on the fact that water is at the heart of the dieback and the mites or thrips (if that's what they are) are secondary.
