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What happened to my pistachio?

Pistachio    None Given

Hello!
I'm from center Italy and I have this female pistachio plant.
I planted it 2 years ago and I noticed that it didn't grew up a lot.
One month ago my plant seemed to be very healthy with big green leaves.
On 8th June I gave some insecticide at low concentration (clorpirifos I remember) on it and on my little pecan plants (still in good conditions).
Today, after about 20 days my plant seems to be dead.
Leaves started to dry from the tip and also half of the trunk dried.
Also the tip of new shoot are burned.
I noticed same symptoms also on a pistachio terebinthus near my pistachio but it is in better condition than my pistachio.
What could it be according to you?
Thank you!


Posted by: Mirko (2 points) Mirko
Posted: July 1, 2016




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It looks like pesticide injury. The effectiveness of a spray depends on products, plant growth stage, weather conditions etc. Leaf injury and other damage may happens due to poor mixing and agitation, highly concentrated materials, faulty spray equipment, or extremes of weather during or after spraying.

1. Type of plant and growth stage: Some plants are very sensitive to pesticides at particular growth stage. So make sure the pesticide is suitable for that stage.
2. Weather conditions: Spraying during drought stress or extremely dry, cold and wet, or hot conditions increases the chance of injury.
3. Faulty spray equipments may spray bigger droplets and increases concentration of pesticide on plants which causes injury.
4. Products: Most of the pesticides are crop specific, so make sure you choose the right one. Also select the correct formulations (for example- emulsifiable materials as foliage applications are more likely to cause injury than wettable powders).


Posted by: Dr. Ravishankar Narayana (15 points) Dr. Ravishankar Narayana
Posted: July 1, 2016


Mirko commented,
Is very strange. The terebinthus had not been treated and has the same symptoms!
almost 8 years ago.



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Today I noticed on my terebinthus this damage.
It is similar to botryosphaeria dothidea.
What do you think?


Posted by: Mirko (2 points) Mirko
Posted: July 6, 2016




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