Strawberries, Olive Tree & Chilli Pepper Plant

**flubba-jubba** · 07-05-2009, 06:10 PM

strawbs:

olive tree: I generally keep this in the kitchen window

olive tree: ive got a few funny yellowish leaves on it, some of them have dropped off….any ideas what im doing wrong??

**flubba-jubba** · 07-05-2009, 06:10 PM

Chilli pepper plant: I bought this at lunchtime today, when I got home I re-potted it into a bigger pot and gave it a water with some organic seaweed fertilizer�..its now in the mini greenhouse along with the strawbs

this is the fertilizer ive been using on all my plants��is this ok to use on them all??

**esrikandan** · 07-05-2009, 06:19 PM

My Olive looks like that too. Mine lives outdoors next to the house though. Survived Winter ok as the leaves changing the colour is a more recent thing. I'm not particularly concerned as it seems happy enough and new leaves are forming.

**flubba-jubba** · 07-05-2009, 06:21 PM

Originally posted by esrikandan View Post

My Olive looks like that too. Mine lives outdoors next to the house though. Survived Winter ok as the leaves changing the colour is a more recent thing. I'm not particularly concerned as it seems happy enough and new leaves are forming.

thats what i thought about the leaves too, ive got loads of new leaves spouting up on the ends.

should i expect to see any olives on it this year??

**esrikandan** · 07-05-2009, 06:26 PM

Originally posted by flubba-jubba View Post

thats what i thought about the leaves too, ive got loads of new leaves spouting up on the ends.

should i expect to see any olives on it this year??

No idea! It's all part of the adventure!

Cheers,

Eric

**teakdesk** · 07-05-2009, 06:44 PM

On the olive tree, if older leaves are going yellow in the centre leaving a bit of green near the tip and the stalk then it could be lacking magnesium - a weak feed of epsom salts should help.

Otherwise, if all the leaf is going yellow then it could need a feed of nitrogen.

However, if the tree is healthy apart from an odd yellow leaf it could just be one of those things which will pass !!!!

**starloc** · 07-05-2009, 07:09 PM

Evergreen trees tend to continuously loose a few leaves, if the yellow ones are old leaves and its growing new growth/buds its probably chucking a few older leaves before it grows new ones, citrus trees do this as well, a few leaves will go yellow , dull and fall off then it will shoot new growth, perfectly normal on evergreen trees
If all older leaves are changing colous i would look for mineral defficency, lots of leaves going yellow could be overwatering etc, but if its just a few it should be just normal growth cycle

**flubba-jubba** · 07-05-2009, 07:17 PM

its more likely to be me overwatering in that case.......ive only had it a few weeks and it didnt have any yellow leaves when i got it......i think i'll just keep an eye out for now and not water it as much. cheers guys

**Llamas** · 07-05-2009, 07:30 PM

Hmm. My olive tree decided life was getting a bit quiet and chucked of all of it's leaves on one branch. I'm terrified of it dying now, as my small kumquat tree just kicked the bucket.

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