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ElPolloDiablo said:I wouldn't worry too much about the leaves themselves.

What I would worry about is the soil: the leaves fell because lychee trees cannot stand waterlogged soil. It's paramount that you improve soil drainage around it if you want it to live.
Lychees also cannot be merely left to their own devices: they need regular watering outside the rainy season and fertilizer. A lot of it: commercially grown trees are "fed" two or three times a year depending on what cultural tecniques are used.

The upside is in the US they are usually pest- and disease-free trees, so that's one less thing to worry about.

Thank you for your advise.

I have very compacted clay here. I pulled the tree out of the ground and heavily amended a large area and planted the tree several inches above grade this time. I did all this several weeks ago in hopes of improving the soil drainage. And i was so sensitive to over watering that i stopped watering all together and i think i got the reverse effect and have been overly stressing the tree.

I thought being a tropical tree, it wouldnt mind wet soil but the clay doesnt let anything drain, it just fills the tree hole up and sits in there like a clay bowl.

Luckily its not an avocado, it would already be dead.