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#1: Steve LaFortune (lafor399) on Jun 24, 2012

Fun puzzle to solve

Great! Fun solve. Just the right size to have alot of detail without be boring.

Really nice image for its size; thank you!

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definitely in the white oak family, as can be seen by the rounded lobes. sorry, I have a degree in horticulture. trees and plants fascinate me. Love your puzzles!

side note, if you ever need help or a friendly piece of advice with the "grover business" as you termed it, you have a specialist on call.

Kurt, actually I have two problems. 1) Beeches's new leaves are small, yellow-red color, twisted and look like stopped in next growing 2)One from castaneas has falling flowers without full-blown.

great, agree with all above :)

lots of reasons for small yellowish twisted leaves. first, I'd have to ask the weather conditions that you've been having....you dry and hot? chlorosis might do it as well, which is basically a lack of iron. if you said an oak tree, I'd be more prone to say add a fertilizer containing iron(but you said beech)

flowers will abort early under stress. a stressed plant will produce a hormone called abscissic acid, causing the flowers to drop. flowers are for reproduction...a plant would rather survive than reproduce. once again, without seeing the plant, I can gather no idea as to why the plant is stressed to begin with. bad weather? doubtful if that's the problem if it's only one of several that is dropping flowers...lack of water? construction nearby? does it get more or less sun than the others? possibly stress from transplanting? your best bet here is to look at the surrounding environment, rather than the hurt plant itself

and btw... beeches are usually found in the forests, particularly common to hills and mountainous areas. if in a nursery and they're not protected from the heat some, that might do it. are the leaves dropping? if it's dry, trees will drop some of their inside leaves to conserve water, and keep leaves towards the outside(because outside ones catch more sun to convert to energy).

Probably it was too much dry. Now is rainy more days and leaves look better. With castanea with falling flowers it finished positive only this tree has little chestnuts. Others trees with royal flowers have nothing :)

Beautiful. Lots of fun to solve.

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