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Tree Needs Help?!?

14 years ago

I have a single red maple specimen 100 feet from any other trees in my Saint Louis city yard. It stands in the full sun with a single story garage wall ~10 foot to the North of the trunk. The garage is light colored and it does reflect heat. The tree is ~15-20 foot tall; I planted it four years ago. The tree has thrived until this year. I always water well; however, due to the drought, I have been watering even more extensively this summer. The tree started dropping leaves a few months back and I stepped up the watering in response. About 3 weeks after the leaf drop started, all of the limbs had experienced die-back for ~10-12 inches. The leaves all look generally unhealthy; they are greener by the trunk but they become more brown/red as you move out to the ends of the limbs. I blamed all of this on the record temperatures and did not become too concerned. The tree looked like it was going to bud back out but those buds now appear brown. The lawn under the tree is green. I did fertilize the tree this Spring but have not followed-up with a Summer/Fall feeding. I now see some sap leaking from the base of the trunk. When I first saw the sap I thought of borers even though I do not see the little round holes I would expect. I did spray the trunk 2X with rose spray the last couple weeks.

I've read all I can find on the web and I have been unable to identify my issue(s). I have purchased some Spinosad and I did plan on spraying the entire tree - I wanted to see if anyone could assist before I did that.

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