Is this mold on my Satsuma leaves?

TexasTycoon · July 31, 2015

Grabbed this leaf to get a better look at it and it fell off in my hand. Is this mold or something else? Most of the leaves look healthy, though everything is kinda droopy (I'm assuming from the heat). My Seto Satsuma is in a large pot on my apartment patio. Just planted in the Spring, and no fruit or blossoms have ever come of it. This was a lower leaf. And sorry if the image is huge, can't resize on my phone.

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Worth1 · July 31, 2015

Kelly I have looked at spotted citrus leaves till I have spots on my eyes thrying to help you.
I dont think it is mold but not for sure what it is.

Could the plant be being over watered?

Worth

TexasTycoon · July 31, 2015

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Originally Posted by Worth1

Kelly I have looked at spotted citrus leaves till I have spots on my eyes thrying to help you.
I dont think it is mold but not for sure what it is.

Could the plant be being over watered?

Worth

It's possible, I haven't felt the soil under the mulch in a while. It looks like sooty mold to me though. We've still got lots of mealybugs on other plants (none on the Satsuma as far as I can tell) and I know their honeydew leads to sooty mold, but like I said I haven't seen any on the Satsuma tree.

I've also come to realize that a lot of the plant issue we've had this year are probably out of our hands since we're on the first floor of an apartment building and who knows what they spray on their own landscaping right next to our patio (or if our upstairs neighbors have poured anything off their patio that splashed onto our plants). So it could be anything, really. We've got lots of bugs coming in from the fields behind us, too.

KC.Sun · July 31, 2015

Im not sure what it is, but do know that there is a disease that affects all citrus plants. Could also be fine too.

http://www.texascitrusgreening.org

July 31, 2015

My guess is that it is sooty mold that is caused by white flies. I may be wrong but it looks like a citrus I had years ago.

July 31, 2015	#1
TexasTycoon Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2015 Location: Round Rock, TX, Zone 8b Posts: 1,157	Is this mold on my Satsuma leaves? Grabbed this leaf to get a better look at it and it fell off in my hand. Is this mold or something else? Most of the leaves look healthy, though everything is kinda droopy (I'm assuming from the heat). My Seto Satsuma is in a large pot on my apartment patio. Just planted in the Spring, and no fruit or blossoms have ever come of it. This was a lower leaf. And sorry if the image is huge, can't resize on my phone. Sent from my SM-N900P using Tapatalk __________________ -Kelly "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." - Audrey Hepburn Bloom where you are planted.

July 31, 2015	#2
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Kelly I have looked at spotted citrus leaves till I have spots on my eyes thrying to help you. I dont think it is mold but not for sure what it is. Could the plant be being over watered? Worth

July 31, 2015	#4
KC.Sun Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: 6a Posts: 322	Im not sure what it is, but do know that there is a disease that affects all citrus plants. Could also be fine too. http://www.texascitrusgreening.org

July 31, 2015	#5
JoParrott Guest Posts: n/a	My guess is that it is sooty mold that is caused by white flies. I may be wrong but it looks like a citrus I had years ago.