Is this oak wilt?

[achtungpv]

Could someone please tell me if this is oak wilt or some other problem? We have two live oaks that were planted at the same time 3 years ago. One is perfectly healthy, but the second has lost most of its leaves and those that are left are light green with brown spots. Photos are below:

1. The bad live oak:

2. Close up of the leaves:

3. The other, healthly live oak 50 feet away for comparision:

 

[Stumper]

I'm npot an Oakwilt specialist but if those trees were planted 3 years ago I suspect that the cause of the tree's decline is root loss and transplant shock.

 

[achtungpv]

I'm npot an Oakwilt specialist but if those trees were planted 3 years ago I suspect that the cause of the tree's decline is root loss and transplant shock.

The tree was perfectly healthy for the first 2 1/2 years. It started to decline about 6 months ago.

 

[Ekka]

Hope it dies, too close to the house anyway.

 

[TREETX]

It is not Oak wilt. More likely than not, just poor stock planted too deep in clay soils north, east, or south of austin. That or poor stock planted in poor fill ontop of limestone soils in southwest or west Austin.

Either way, it is a goner. Start over. Maybe a monterrey oak or Montezuma Cypress.

Best of luck

 

[texasnative]

oak wilt attacks the oak's vascular system, thereby showing its symptoms on the foliage at the top of the tree and working its way down. most likely, your tree does not have oak wilt.

 

[Reed]

From a root-borne infection, yes. But an isolated infection from wounds will "flag" a limb or upwards. Amputation is effective if diligence is practiced.

First item in wilt education is to ferret out information far beyond the State's recommendations. Official info is tainted in favor of financial interests. Up for a challenge?

 

[TREETX]

Up for a challenge?

Always

 

[Reed]

Okay Nate.

Is there any way to transfer the dialogue starting roughly six or seven or eight years ago that was posted on ISA and Doug Meoller's defunct site? Classic wilt education there. I'm getting alzheimer's sometimes, forget when.

Skip to the plan now - slowing reproduction, enough to allow enzyme digestion. Wish I were more interested in saving oaks now days, just keep wanting that boat. Passagemaker is for sale in Trinidad, do a search and read about a classic old-time American man that isn't part of our make up anymore. That's the boat, here's my plan:

removals until the boat gets bought. Then sell all this accumulating tree service equipment along with the rolodex of happy customers. Keep within two-three degrees N of Equator and circumsize this planet and test beers at every port...as a Canadian citizen. Canals thru France from the Med, I'll see you in Germany. America is so retro-gone. They can keep all my S.S. and my chipper, I want real characters and true democracies.

 

[TREETX]

I wish Doug's site was still accessable. Some true gems there.

Don't look for me here for long mid-march and fresh snow outside. Call me a wuss, but I'll take sweating it out in 100F weather over this any day. At least then you can enjoy a cold beer in the shade of a live oak when all is done. Not sure I miss wilt customers who have a hard time grasping that I don't do resurrections and money can't solve the problem anymore.

The guy I do most of my work for bought a boat last year in the canaries and is currently sailing it from the netherlands, through Germany, to the Danube and to the Black Sea.

I've been pricing land out your way. Soon.

Just started work for this season yesterday. Time to do it again.

 

[Reed]

Ditto on the wilt. Anyone who shows concern employs everything possible and most infected stands are apoptic from the variety of treatment choices prescribed. Terminal velocity increased, mad landowners, happy but gone contractors, and here I drive up facing a mentality that's so ignorant and upset my dog doesn't want to ride along anymore.

That's why takedowns are so attractive and replacements the thrust of my work - but even that presents risk....people don't care for young 'uns you ask them to baby along. Like fast food and no taxes, they only want easy street here.

(Boat boat boat)

Cheap land along the Rio Grande north of Terlingua. 29.00 per acre, it's right up your kayak preferences. Look it up. Mountains and wild goats and young verile Tejas natives running about. Well, maybe. You have to buy them from their father's but with goat traps and old climbing ropes.....

Certainly still be here - got a chipper to justify being buzy, and before you leave Germany maybe dig around for some low-level long term investment opportunities, the fiscal future there over time certainly has more promise than here. You'll notice too the older your shoulders get from working colder hours in frosty surroundings makes a Tecate w' lime and an Enchilada on Sixth St. sound pretty darn sweet. I'll get the first round.

Later.

 

[treeseer]

Wish I were more interested in saving oaks now days, just keep wanting that boat.

I wish you were too; too few have that interest.

Red sails in the sunset, goodbye Uncle Wiltie;
I couldn't leave all this behind; I would feel too guilty.
Battles left unfought; never peaceful nap.
Sound of waves on hull is like a stinging slap.

Battles won, energy spent, even if leavin' a mess,
Sound of waves on hull is like a beauty's caress.
White sails in the dawn, awake with a yawn,
Every day's sweet victory if the right side you've fought on,
Until you are all done.

Fung Sung Young