While taking pictures today I notice a few leaves on different potted trees with a white border on the leaves. Anyone have a clue.



"gene"

Has it received fertilizer recently?  Has it gotten too much water from rain where it gutated from the leaf?  The only thing I'm thinking of is too much water where the water pushed out of the leaf and burned the margins with fertilizer drying on it, or a slight fertilizer burn if it got worse. 

These are just my thoughts but I'm really not sure.

Chivas, thanks for the reply. I stop feeding my potted plants over a month ago but it has been watered real well by the constant rainfall we've been having. Just this week we had 2 1/2" yesterday, 1" the day before, 1" the day before, 1/2" the day before and 3/8" the day before. The week before was not quite that bad.
"gene"

Chill out, Gene. ;-))

I have 10,000 leaves that look worse that that. We had 2 weeks of cold weather in June and some trees completely defoliated. They are re-leafing now.

Leaves get old, and show their age in many ways. Eventually (Fall) they get yellow and fall off. Your leaves are about 40 in fig leaf years right now, and will be dead when they hit 70, so they should be showing some age.

Too little water causes brown margins and little black/brown spots. Severe water deprivation leads to crispy dry patches on the leaves, or whole leaves getting crispied. Enough water, but low humidity or excessive son and heat can make leaves show the same marks. Sometimes the plant can't take up water as fast as it is losing it, and the leaves show it. Nothing, other than heavy shade will likely prevent that.

Thanks Jon, I didn't think it was much of anything, but just checking.
"gene"

I wish that the leaves on many of my trees looked that nice. Don't see a problem.

Dan
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