Software
Houzz Logo Print
sah_upstate4

Stone fruit slow to drop leaves in fall?

7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago

Are stone fruit known to take their time in dropping leaves in the fall? Our apples have been bare for a few weeks already, but it's now the week before Thanksgiving and our nectarine is still clinging to about 60% of its green foliage, while our two Japanese plums are both only about 40-50% defoliated.


The nectarine I'm not so worried about, as it's an older tree with fairly stout limbs, but the plums were planted this past spring, and after about 1.5" of heavy, wet snow last night, their limbs are bending in all sorts of precarious positions.

Comments (3)