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What Iron Chlorosis Is and How to Treat It
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Trees show signs of iron chlorosis when they are suffering from an iron deficiency. Autumn blaze, fall fantasy, silver maple, flowering plum, and aspens are especially susceptible to iron chlorosis in Utah because of the soil composition. • Although the soils in Utah generally contain a lot of iron, the soil is alkaline, which means it has a high pH level. This causes the iron to bind to the soil, making it difficult for trees to absorb the iron. • The leaves of trees with iron chlorosis will turn yellow prematurely and fall off the tree well before autumn. As the condition worsens, the leaves will fall off of the tree earlier each year, which can eventually cause the tree to die. • The best way to treat iron chlorosis is by injecting chelated iron into the ground near the roots or into the trunk of the tree. The tree uptakes the iron into its branches and leaves, which gives it the nutrition it needs. • Stewart’s offers iron treatments for trees with iron chlorosis. Call or text our office at 801-226-2261 for a free estimate. • Visit https://stewartslawn.com/ for more information about our services. • Stewart’s is a proud, family-owned company, operated by the Stewart family since 1972. We are Utah's #1 local lawn care company offering lawn, pest control, and tree and shrub services. We service thousands of properties in Davis, Salt Lake, Utah, Wasatch, and Weber counties. • More information about Iron Chlorosis: • https://stewartslawn.com/what-iron-ch... • • Transcript: • Does your tree have a yellow leaf similar to this one? Hi, my name is Jake Golding, a certified arborist here at Stewart's Tree Service. If so, this is an issue called iron chlorosis. • One of the signs that we see with this is obviously yellow leaves like this one. Sometimes it can also have dark green veins inside our leaf margins as well. Other items you’ll see are poor leaf production and early leaf drop (typically that will happen in the July time frame). • Often times with iron chlorosis, we see them in certain types of trees in Utah. Some of those are autumn blaze, fall fantasy, October glory, and silver maple varieties. • Typically with iron chlorosis, the big thing that causes this problem is soil content. Those trees can’t uptake those nutrients sufficiently. One approach here at Stewarts that we’ve used to help solve this iron chlorosis issue is an injection approach. This is a systemic injection into the trunk of the tree. We can do this on any tree that is 15 inches in diameter. Usually, we measure that by 15 inches around the base of the tree here. Anything that’s larger than that we can do. • Anything lower than that is a deep-root treatment, which we’ll talk about here in a minute. With the injection approach, we are going into the trunk of the tree through the holes down here at the base. We’re drilling into the tree using a drill bit and a plug method. After the hole is drilled and the plug is set, we insert this injector tool into here and just pump chemical (like I said) into that xylem layer of the tree and it goes up into the leaves. That xylem layer is responsible for the uptake of nutrients into the branches and leaves of our tree. Usually, by doing this approach, it's a quicker recovery for the tree and often takes about two to three years to fully recover from the iron chlorosis issue. • If by chance, the circumference of the tree is less than 15 inches, we have another option for you, that is a deep root treatment. This deep root treatment of ours has three chemicals in it: a chelated iron, a systemic insecticide, and a fertilizer. That chelated iron is a specially formulated iron so the trees can uptake it. And this is done by injecting a stake-type system about every three to five feet around the tree. • If you have any other questions concerning iron chlorosis or any other problems in or around your home, please feel free to give us a call here at Stewart's. Thank you!
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