TUESDAY 9/10:
This plant is pathetic...mostly due to the eary root issues, but also because she needs much more light that what she's been getting. I took a sprinkler down there and swapped out the soaker hose for about 30 minutes of "pseudo-rain" with the well water.
WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY:
I had company in from out of town and just set the soaker hose on a timer for about 10 minutes per day to keep her alive.
SATURDAY:
I fed her about a half-gallon of frothy compost tea that I brewed up for 3 days...compost with biochar, fox farms cave culture bat and seabird guano, kelp me kelp you, soluble dolomite, bembe, humates, liquid molasses, terpinator, and a good blend of endomycorrhizae, trichoderma fungi, and beneficial bacteria...yummm.....but I doubt it does her any good...
@CRiSPrGrow,
Yep...I already did some judicious branch removal or they wouldn't be getting any direct sunlight at all..I opened up the tree canopy enough for them to get morning sun(from the east) from about 9:30am until about 2pm, then it's shaded the rest of the day. I'm considering opening up the western exposure so that they'd get a little bit more direct sunlight from around 5pm until 5:30 or maybe 6:00pm.
@CRiSPrGrow,
I kinda doubt it's N lockout....besides the biotabs, she's only received minute amounts of organically derived sources of nitrogen, like kelp, earthworm castings, and compost tea, and the occasional boom boom spray..unless maybe it's a K lockout..
If she hasn't improved when I go out to see her today, I'm gonna transplant her into a 5 gallon pot. I really hate to at this late stage, but I'm hoping she'll recover quickly.