Tamarillo tree

My tamarillo tree isn't doing so well since I put it in the ground at the end of last winter. Any ideas what might be wrong?

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  • Thanks for the reply Craig!

    It's typical Maleny reddish clay-ey soil with a fair amount of organic matter in it. The tree is in a sheltered gully, frost-free, gets sun all day long. It had a severe aphid problem last year which has now subsided, but the tree has not really recovered with the summer as I expected it to. I planted some banana suckers nearby which are growing so much faster than the tamarillo that they are actually starting to encroach a bit.
  • what sort of conditions are present? soil type, sun exposure, mulch etc, would it have been because of some of these really hot days? some of my smaller fruit trees got really knocked around lately by the heat.

    i found this online it may help: The trees are grown from cuttings and are very frost-tender when young. They are shallow-rooted and respond to deep mulching and abundant water. The tree can grow to a little more than 6 meters but it is subject to wind damage and needs shelter. It will bear fruit after two years and a single mature tree in good soil will carry more fruit than a normal family can eat for about 3 months. A well-nourished tree can produce up to 66kg of fruit in a year. When the tree is about 1 to 1.5 meters in height it is advisable to cut the roots on one side and lean the tree to the other (direction of the midday sun at about 30 to 45 degrees). This allows fruiting branches to grow from all along the trunk rather than just at the top
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