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Venus Alcyone User ID: 1448151 United States 06/15/2012 12:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've lived in Hillbilly NY for most of my life, and have never noticed what appeared to be early leaf drop until last summer. Quoting: TS66 Last year I noticed it far before the typical fall shedding. Yesterday my 3 year old grandaughter said, "Look Grandma it's snowing !!" Sure enough I went outside and our willows are dropping leaves like crazy .... with 3 huge ones in our yard, it certainly looked something like snow fall. Is this normal, or are we experiencing something completely new in the past 2 years ??? Anyone else noticing it ? No it's not normal and yes some of my oak trees leaves are turning. |
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telling it straight User ID: 1461054 United States 06/15/2012 12:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have two plants in a room with a skylight that have been doing amazingly well for the last couple of years. In another room with a skylight is a bamboo that was thriving. In the last couple of weeks they've started dying. Bamboo looks the best but its leaves look unhealthy. I think this is weird that all three are dying after doing soooo well. I think its the sun affecting them somehow as never before. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1169966 United States 06/15/2012 01:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've lived in Hillbilly NY for most of my life, and have never noticed what appeared to be early leaf drop until last summer. Quoting: TS66 Last year I noticed it far before the typical fall shedding. Yesterday my 3 year old grandaughter said, "Look Grandma it's snowing !!" Sure enough I went outside and our willows are dropping leaves like crazy .... with 3 huge ones in our yard, it certainly looked something like snow fall. Is this normal, or are we experiencing something completely new in the past 2 years ??? Anyone else noticing it ? LOL !!!!!!! depends on a few things--' tree needs more water is growing has some sort of sickness OR simply is the same kind of POS right here that sheds,DROPS leaves and bark and branches all throughout the summer. other morning i thought it was FALL,the leaves were ankle deep all over the place. does it EVERY YEAR and LIVES on to do all over again next year. |
Ossie bloke User ID: 17946762 Australia 06/15/2012 01:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We are supposed to plunge into the next great Ice Age. From what I understand about it, it's not going to be a gradual one, but rather a sudden type of ordeal. With as many of the volcanoes and even the melting of the tundra in Russia and possibly Canada and Alaska LOTS of methane's being released in almost incalcable rates and measurements. It's merely a matter of time before we see massive drop offs in tempertures planet wide instead of mostly in the Euporean countries. The Earth's axis is WAY off from the 23.5 degrees. That's also a major contributor in a quite a few ways. I don't think that this major Ice Age is going to last a long long time. Maybe a few decades at max. At least I hope so anyways. Quoting: darkwolf007 This thread from 7 years ago - Thread: Extremely weird weather. Are we approaching "Day After Tomorrow" scenario? |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 17392454 United States 06/15/2012 07:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've lived in Hillbilly NY for most of my life, and have never noticed what appeared to be early leaf drop until last summer. Quoting: TS66 Last year I noticed it far before the typical fall shedding. Yesterday my 3 year old grandaughter said, "Look Grandma it's snowing !!" Sure enough I went outside and our willows are dropping leaves like crazy .... with 3 huge ones in our yard, it certainly looked something like snow fall. Is this normal, or are we experiencing something completely new in the past 2 years ??? Anyone else noticing it ? LOL !!!!!!! depends on a few things--' tree needs more water is growing has some sort of sickness OR simply is the same kind of POS right here that sheds,DROPS leaves and bark and branches all throughout the summer. other morning i thought it was FALL,the leaves were ankle deep all over the place. does it EVERY YEAR and LIVES on to do all over again next year. Well I've had this specific yard and trees for over 14 years, lived in the area for over 45, and have been getting a very good mix of rain and sun all spring. Let me add to the list as our Bean Tree(Catalpa Speciosa), which is typically in full bloom now, and abundantly so, is barely pushing out a flower. This did happen last year, I made lots of excuses, but to have it happen again this year ??? It's not making much sense as pure happenstance. |
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Major_Payne User ID: 17985852 United States 06/15/2012 07:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's a little early, but the warm weather came early too. Trees with continuous growth, normally called sustained growth, continue to produce leaves as long as growing conditions are favorable. It seemed fitting then, that such trees might abort leaves when conditions aren’t favorable. Hmmm. In other words, they “over produce” leaves, then in an effort to conserve limited moisture in harsh, hot times, they rebalance by aborting leaves. Normally the oldest (interior) leaves are the first ones aborted. [link to mghc.org] |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 17392454 United States 06/15/2012 07:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's a little early, but the warm weather came early too. Quoting: Major_Payne Trees with continuous growth, normally called sustained growth, continue to produce leaves as long as growing conditions are favorable. It seemed fitting then, that such trees might abort leaves when conditions aren’t favorable. Hmmm. In other words, they “over produce” leaves, then in an effort to conserve limited moisture in harsh, hot times, they rebalance by aborting leaves. Normally the oldest (interior) leaves are the first ones aborted. [link to mghc.org] Again no lack of water or sun this year. What about last year ?? Two totally different growing seasons, same results, and both atypical of any other year. |
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Major_Payne User ID: 17985852 United States 06/15/2012 07:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We did have a local outbreak of 17 yr locust that arrived 3 yrs early. But it's been hot and sunny in Ohio so the trees shedding leaves don't seem to be a big deal. Plus it's not like they are losing all their leaves, I would panic then. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 17392454 United States 06/16/2012 07:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We did have a local outbreak of 17 yr locust that arrived 3 yrs early. But it's been hot and sunny in Ohio so the trees shedding leaves don't seem to be a big deal. Plus it's not like they are losing all their leaves, I would panic then. Quoting: Major_Payne Well, depending where you are in Ohio, you may be a little dry but this wouldn't effect all trees. In regard to being very sunny, that it is half the equation of food (photosynthesis) for trees, unless the ozone layer is worse off than we have been led to believe. And of course, this would also be an atypical trend for the worse. [link to droughtmonitor.unl.edu] Upstate NY however has plenty of moisture, plenty of sunshine, and no reports of disease or bugs that would be the cause of early leaf drop. |
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