when was it planted????

except for brown leaves.. you havent given us much info about the tree

ken

Two of my five do this (the yellow apples). They get a leaf fungus (small grey or black dots) then the leaves curl up and die. It does not look nice, but the trees are growing like weeds.

Do yours get spots on the leaves? Or are they just turning and falling?

What kind of apple tree is it?

Planted 2 years ago, from seed. Don't know what kind because daugther started it from one of her apples, so more then likely a crab. Yes the leaves did have spots and kind of light green in color (leaf), but now it went from that to now drying up but not falling off. The tree looked really good in the spring and I made sure that it was getting watered when there wasn't rain for long periods.

It sounds like it could be rust or one of the other diseases that trees in the apple family are prone to. There are some resistant cultivars and hybrids out there that are better to plant than from seed for this very reason.

Is there anything I could do to save it, or is it a lost cause? I do have fungial spray, is it too late for the spray. I want to see how it goes next spring, before ridding of it.

Don't rule out fireblight. Look at some pictures on the internet and see if fireblight could be the issue. My crab had it bad this spring. It causes sudden brown/crispy leaves to form on some of the shoots, almost like the twig got caught in a fire.

My crab also had scab so the two often co-exist.

With flireblight, the leaves cling.
With apple scab, they get spots, brown & drop.
Any chance of posting pictures?

I will post pictures when I get home. Thanks for all the help. With flirebright and apple scab, is there a chance to save the tree if it is one of those?