02-03-2010, 08:14 PM
I have several ohia trees in my yard and about 30% are either dead or dying. The others are very healthy as far as I can tell. I don't think it's anything I'm doing because in the few hundred yards between my yard and the ocean I see the same thing and that's on untouched and undeveloped land (Kaloli Point, HPP).
None of my dead or dying ohias are being strangled by guava so I don't think it's that plus the guava isn't growing around those in the undeveloped land.
I know one or two have been hit by lightning in the last few years and that'll kill a tree in a heartbeat but I'm at a loss to explain why my ohias are on their way out.
It might be climate change but I don't think it's vog because ohias have survived that for decades/centuries. It's a complete mystery to me, I hope someone figures it out.
Tom
None of my dead or dying ohias are being strangled by guava so I don't think it's that plus the guava isn't growing around those in the undeveloped land.
I know one or two have been hit by lightning in the last few years and that'll kill a tree in a heartbeat but I'm at a loss to explain why my ohias are on their way out.
It might be climate change but I don't think it's vog because ohias have survived that for decades/centuries. It's a complete mystery to me, I hope someone figures it out.
Tom