Wow great video guys thank you so much I love when I get to learn from y'all I feel more at ease now and better equipped!! Thank you again for the new addition to my mental check list I DIG MrMaple!!!!
I have lost 3 trees out of 50 in the last 2 years. It always happens the same way, in similar leaf jm trees (lilliannes jewel, Hana matoi, and ruby de sofia). The tree will leaf out in the spring looking like it's doing well then the leafs just start wilting. I have tried fertilizer, broad spectrum antifungals, replanting in pure perlite to repair roots, but I just can't save the trees. I keep all my trees in freely draining soils with pine bark perlite and pumice.
My japanese maple has bark damage and the upper part of the tree is not leafing like the bottom of the tree. What do you recommend I should do to the tree?
I totally thought it need mostly shade so I planted my 3' tall JM in a shady area. When I found out it actually likes sun, I moved it now at 7' tall to a open area in my yard. The area dirt has clay, gravel and some buried concrete from a patio project so I dug down to remove as much as I could, mixed some compost into the existing soil, then more mix on top. Should get good nutrients and drainage. I can't wait to see how it does.
I have a 10+ year old Japanese maple planted in ground. It’s started losing a lot of lower branches this last year. It makes me sad of the thought of losing it. I may need to bring an arborist out to look at it.
Great video. Thanks for the tips. Do you recommend with maples in pots to put a brick or similar underneath the pot when it is on the ground to help the drainage?
Do you guys restock wisterias during a specific season? I see they are all out of stock right now I’d like to own some wisteria floribunda this spring/summer
@@MrMapleShow okay thank you so much I’m really looking forward to it!! I have a few American and sinensis wisterias and really want some Japanese ones next🤩🤩
Hello fellows, I have a question my emperor one Japanese maple has lost all of its leaves as they were scorched from our Texas summer. it has no leaves currently I cut off the remaining scorched leaves. I did a scratch test, the top of the truck is green, the middle of the trunk is green but the base of the truck near the roots it’s brown. I already cut off one of the branches because it was completely brown so I’m not sure if the trees completely dead as it’s still green in the middle and the top but I don’t see any green near the root at the base of the tree, so should I just wait and see what it might do next spring or Is this tree already in the process of dying?
It has a chance to make it if the buds are healthy. Some stress is common the fist season. It may require more shade next season until it’s established. The steps you took seem all good ones. Depending on how cool you get this fall it may stay dormant until spring but if it’s green underneath and has buds it has a good chance
Hi like your video on maples...Question I have a bonsai maple for about 6years and had no problems with it until this year. The trunk is green but the branches are brown and no leaves .whats your thoughts, any suggestions? Tku dj
Bonsai can be tricky. They require a lot of root maintenance to stay in a small pot. Have you been shaping it? If not I would bump up to a larger container soon
@@MrMapleShow I have been doing bonsai for over 20years and never had my maple do things like this,so I thought I would ask since my techniques wasn't working any other suggestions. Tku dj
I’m concerned about my coral bark Japanese maple. The top half has turned black (maybe pseudonymous) but I have a few leaves left on the bottom that look healthy bits just leaves out, but I fear it’s planted in a poor drainage location. Water was standing there after the rain we’ve just had! Will it be better off if I lift it out of the ground and pot it up now (even though it’s already leafed out)? Or should I try to just amend the soil some more in the surrounding area?
I was also wondering if it is okay to use a product like Preen which prevents annual weeds near a Japanese Maple or would you also consider that a weed killer?
I keep hearing to wet, but what is to wet? Like it rained 8 weeks here in Belgium (some days 16-24 hours). I know in swiss it doenst rain often but if it does it's sometimes 1-3 days with little pause and ALL the japanese maple there were healthy. My garden has a strategic 'water from terras' is not drained but goes in ground off stones into garden, same is true for garden who goes from high to low (terras is low). this is especially worth it with climate change cause in summer the plants get to few water for sure, but in winter (especially like this one), they get a lot more. The fun fact is even if it rains 24 hours hard (record rain amount), the worst that happened was 3-5cm 'water pool' the fun fact is, next morning all this water was infiltrated in ground, so a true mud it isn't. So it's not SWAMPY yet but very very dry, but i'm sure the top layer will quickly get dry once it's 20°C. So far the Acer Japonicum Aconitifolium is in the most wet part. Have no planted skeeters bloom and orange dream just a bit above it. While a little, once more roots, weeds other plants fill the garden i hope the the water draining itself will be good. When removing the old terras (much bigger and 4 generation of stone on top of each other), i saw lot of wurms, any wurm i found i trew into undigged territory to spare them (i know they are godsend for ground). Now they are still very present. I didn't give any fertilizer cause i keep hearing Acer Palmatum doesn't really need/want that. Will see. This is the most wet winter since i got garden, hope at leach march has a warm week to dry out the swamp spell.
@@MrMapleShow'holding water', you mean the trunk or roots? For instance they love shadows, that means, ground will dry less out in summer, so chance if if you turn the ground it's actually wet. For instance, city planted a bloodgood? But it's never watered and next to heat soaking building, they both lots 33% of branches (burned out no more new leaves). These do NOT have wet feet :D Yet they are worse then my trees. So is there a splash of (permanent water), above the roots? no. Is the ground ultra wet? Yes, the boots sink 3cm in ground top layer cause to much rain. Really hard to make an estimation about this. At some point we also had non stop 30 miles an hours windspeed, (at relative warm 10°C) it didnt remove water from top layer, but it dried it out a little preventing pools or anything. In ultra hot weather (40°c record tempts here, earlier records were 36), dried out top 30cm and lower lvl also wasnt good. This is why i made this 'wadi' (dont know english word, it's a little pool where water is able to infiltrate ground and dry out at times but overflood at times too). This means once the rampage of 20-40°C for 7-9 months start, the ground will always have an amount of backup, that will get them tru biggest drought with minimal watering. The ground structure is also better, it cant crack, like in extreme situations. We'll see who's right soon. But you are kinda conflicting yourself 'it need watering' 'it needs to be dry at root level, no 'clogging', once you water or it rains, or is winter and rains, 'ground is cloggy' there is no way around, it may not be swampy but it is cloggy. If this advice was truly true lot more trees would die. Another thing, there is a well next to the japanse maples, once it's hot, this will dry out the top later faster, but the layer under that will have it's own stury layer of water supply.
@@Matti6950 It’s not a complicated concept to understand. Japanese Maples do not like to be in a lot of water. They never like standing water. Roots or trunk doesn’t matter. It’s very simple. Extremely simple. Watch the video again and listen to it. Follow the advice
The earth is not the problem, it's the kind garden centers like you purchase 'farm earth' we call it', After a day of rain (even 40mm or liter)/per square meter, all rain goes inside ground, so there is no lake forming. However, since it has rained 400-700mm/square meter in 3 months, it is very wet, and you sink in a little big into the ground, we need 20+°C to fix it (soon in march i think we'll get that). So far Acer aconitifolium doesn't seem to dislike it, the other two are in slightly better position (higher then from lowest position). In summer there is no way this ground will be 'to wet', it's not clay at all etc. Only fall ultra rain might be problem, but then again, wich ground can resist 1000 liter per square meter in 3 months? I don't think that's any type of 'clogging' you can fix, you keep saying clogging is something that you can fix, but except not planing next to a lake i don't think you can fix it. @@MrMapleShow
@@llrainll turns out my problem was I have extremely hard water and Japanese maples aren't a fan. Had to use soil with gypsum and a slightly acidic fertilizer
What does it mean if it's holding its leaves and there is new growth, but the branches are DROOPING?? I have a 5 ft tall Final Fire JM that we planted a couple weeks ago. We followed all the instructions we could find. I'm growing concerned. We live in the Seattle area where JMs are abundant. Our neighborhood is covered in them. I can't find any PICTURES of what over-watering or under-watering or over-fertilizing or under-fertilizing actually look like.
My emperor 1 was in a pot on my porch and the leaves shriveled up in the summer here in Southern California and then in the winter it dropped all the leaves. I was ready to throw it away and it got new leaves. I was shocked to see new leaves. I planted it underneath another tree and I am hoping it will survive in its new spot. 🤞
Spring looked good now summer looks bad. It has some green fungus on the branches maybe from the roof tiles which has the fungus. Tried watching the water with the moister meter. Moved the diseased leaves away from the tree which is about 20 years old. Maybe I should use some fertilizer.....
I have just discovered that a rabbit has eaten almost all of the branches off of my Little Sango :-( The snow was quite high these last two months and that enabled the bunny to get to the higher branches. Do you think it can survive?
@@MrMapleShow Thank you for your reply :-) It appears they did not touch the trunk, just ate most of the branches from the delicate tips back toward center, leaving branch stubs. They did the same to my young Gold Rush Dawn Redwood.
If it is a green upright and below the graft it should be completely removed back to trunk. If it is above the graft and consistent with the other foliage just stake or train it. Likely it’s below and you should remove. I’ll add a video on this soon also
Is there another problem called windburn? I saw that on someone's video. I had a local nursery plant an Emperor 1 tree last year and the tree suddenly got dried out in September. It was doing fine all summer. Only the lowest branches came back this spring. I was probably about 7 feet tall when it was planted.
Windburn is not commonly an issue unless there are extreme winds (consistent 40 mph+ winds). Humidity changes in the fall so it would likely be a watering issue.
Mine dropped all of its leaves during summer but grew they grew back before the start of fall as of today coming back from school a few hours away. Not easy to grow them in containers in zone 8, but if you follow the science it will work out.
Question for you guys at Mr. Maple. My Japanese maple simply did not bud so far this year in NC. It's May now. Are they sometimes late bloomers? I inspect the tree about 2 or 3 times a week, still no buds. Only thing I did was fed it one food spike last summer, under the outer canopy of the leaves in the ground. Is there hope for this JM or is it done?
Hi Guys it's really hot here in my place and suddenly from a weeks ago one of my maple tree leaves are turning brown at the leaf outward edges.Is the heat and sun rays killing the maple tree.Any suggestions appreciated.Gteetings from Kashmir
I dig Mr Maple and especially these tips. I had just purchased a Shojo Hime from a nursery last spring that was going out of business due to retirement and two days later had powdery mildew. Yikes! It survived but I was now concerned for my other 25 JM on the patio (yeah, hooked). Everything is fine but just the knowledge of what to expect, do-not do, puts me back in control instead of being reactionary. And yes, I looked up how to address the powdery mildew issue. Thanks for the tips.
My Maple is in a container and does really well in the spring but then in the early summer the leaves crinkle on the edges but do not fall off the tree. The soil is moist and not dry. It has done this for 2 years in row now. I live in Southern California and the tree us under a 50% shade area. What do you think could be the problem?
My young 'Summer Gold' is dying :( It rained for several days. After two days of rain, I hid the clones inside. They are all dried up and doing fine, but Summer still has wet soil (the same in all the containers) and it is fading. What should I do? wait or take the plant out and put it in a new soil?
Re the bare root planting. I received mine from Mr Maple in very, very loose soil so when planting it in a pot, much of the soil fell away from it. What to do if that's the problem with it?
If you are going into a pot the best thing to do is just pack in the soil around and be sure not to bury the graft or bury too low. In the future please reach out to our office if there is a problem with the tree or with shipping. We are always happy to remedy any issues. Thanks for your business and thanks for watching.
Great video. I recently moved my Japanese maple in the Summer here in the UK. It was really not doing well where I originally planted it and my Next Door Neighbor keeps spraying the fence with paint and he kept getting paint on the leaves. Its a smaller Japanese maple but still. I then took the idea and I went out bought a big pot with a drainage hole and some stands to put it on and re-potted it. It seemed okay for the first week but recently I have noticed its leaves are dropping off it. I'm scared its going to die. I will go out and buy the Superthrive. I did use some Acer feed in the soil when I re-plotted it as I read somewhere else they love that feed.
so I just planted an emperor 1, about 5' tall from a nursery container in zone 6b. I know this variety buds out later than other maples, but the buds on mine haven't really started swelling yet. I cut a small branch, and the wood was fresh, so I don't think it's dead. I planted with land and sea compost and some worm castings. any idea what's going on? watering/drought isn't the issue, at least I think.
I have a Japanese Maple that is covered with Lichen, when I try to remove the lichen by rubbing it off and if I hit a stem it just snaps off and the stem looks all dried out, does this mean the tree is dead or dying?
Should my Red Coral Japanese Maple - planted in April in zone 8a, be turning red already- End of May? We have heavy clay soil, but they added lots of sand to the hole.
Make sure it’s not staying to wet. If it is in more of a fall color change that can be from stress. That is typically a good time to plant but also make sure it isn’t planted to deeply
My father and I love Japanese maples since i was lil girl. I've purchased an old farmhouse almost 4 years ago in harrisburg, pa and have been establishing some great gardens that included maples of course. My father came to live with me here a couple years ago batteling cancer. He passed away June of last year. He picked all the maples he wanted some of his ashes in. All of them have flourished except my emmits pumpkin and my favorite... uncle ghost! 😪. I followed my nurserys direction as these were 2 were in pots. They told me i could over winter them in these pots just keep them next to the house. They survived our winter adhd had great buds ready to leaf out and then we had a week of so of frost. I didn't think anything of it and now they're still sitting doing nothing. I scratched the main stem and i seen a but of green so i was hopeful. But still nothing new in the way of growth. I did fertilize and water but nothing. What did i do wrong. It's so heartbreaking especially because a lil ofmy father's ashes were planted with them. They'r in huge urns and did well all last year. If i lose these i must buy these exact kind again
@@jasric89 no i didn't. They both did not survive unfortunately. Going to try and repurchase and try again. This time I'll try to over winter in the garage. Thank you so much for the response
Love the videos and info. All of my jps are in ceramic pots and I am afraid they get to hot in the summer. I live right outside of Athens, Ga, in zone 8. I started lining my pots with thick pieces of Styrofoam and then putting the trees in the nursery pots inside the Pots, I also put rocks and mulch in the bottom of the ceramic pots and sit them on bricks to insure they drain correctly.
Help! I think my Japanese Maple was poisoned by some Nutsedge killer. Leaves were beautiful in the spring, we had to re-sod most of our yard in the summer, my wife sprayed some “Sedgehammer” to try to get rid of it out of the tilled yard before sodding. I’m afraid the tree must’ve soaked some up. ALL leaves have turned to a brown, crunchy state. The limbs still seem quite pliable, so I don’t think it’s dead yet. Can I do anything to save it? Perhaps good fertilizer to add some nutrients to help it?
I’m not going to sugar coat it that isn’t good for sure. Greatly depends on exposure and size. If it is movable you may want to try to get it into some fresh soil and see. If it has buds sometimes that’s good.
@@MrMapleShow Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately, I can’t move it, it’s a mature tree firmly rooted in one of our flowerbeds (it’s about 6’, around 8-10 years old). I went ahead and fed it about a gallon of miracle gro mix (1 granular tblspoon to 1 gal water) about a foot around the trunk, hoping for the best. I guess I’ll keep an eye out for either any signs of new growth or brittleness of limbs.
My Japanese Maple (A. palmatum) has dead limbs that I just cut off. Some of them just broke off when I put my hand on them. The tree is very thick and beautiful otherwise. Is there a way to diagnose the tree? I don't fertilize or water it. I just leave it alone. It has none of the issues you discuss in this video, so I'm guessing it must be disease. What should I do?
I have a twin stem mature acer around 20 years old or more but the larger stem has dried out and died apart from some very minor growth on one branch. The other stem is vigorous with lots of leaves. Should I fell the whole tree?
Help! I have an infestation on my bloodgood… small spiders, baby millipedes, other baby worms & aphids. My tree started blooming in early May and now those buds are dead. How can I treat the various infestations? Thank you!!! I have tried natural DE and a little bit of neem oil (bad idea).
@@MrMapleShow What is the best soil brand for Japanese maples, that actually drains well? I used Happy Frog and it does not seem to drain well, which could have created the infestation and dormant tree in the current spring. 😞😞😞
August 23, my beautiful acer shriveled in May/June, it now has really good leaves sprouting from the base of the plant but nothing from branches... ? maybe it was underwatered in hot weather..
What is the best soil brand for Japanese maples, that actually drains well? I used Happy Frog and it does not seem to drain well, which could have created the infestation and dormant tree in the current spring. 😞😞😞
My tree Japanese maple 🍁 is well established it’s about12 ft tall but we had a very hot summer in Tn I did water it but maybe not in time, it looks like half of my tree is dying and the other half looks ok, what can I do?
Hi guys, great video. I am in Hendersonville and recently bought 13 beautiful trees from you. I am paranoid about over watering or under watering. Since planting, some leaves, not excessive have turned brown. For the past few weeks we have strong dry winds, usually for a few hours in the afternoon. I have heard that these winds can be tough on the trees. Could this be contributing to some brown leaves? If so, any suggestions? Thanks
My seedling I have started to grow has odd leaves. The first leaves look okay but all new leaves look deformed. Odd shapes, poor growth - they just look weird. Any ideas?
Why is my Japanese maple dying tue branches are getting black and drying!!! In texas it's super hoy 106 above 100 for like 2 months already !! It's in partial shade and I water it every 3 or 4 days when the soils is dry and the leaves are all wrinkle
Very low. I don’t think it could even be measured in lbs for a single plant. I use a 15 or lower on the nitrogen and then as the specific fertilizer instructs.
@@MrMapleShow OK, good to know was planning to use something like plant tone after the first year which is a 5-3-3 so it sounds like that is the right track.
Really helpful. Thanks so much. Love Japanese maples. Chose the wrong situation for my collection in containers and they got bad leaf burn. Thought I’d lost them. This year they’re back in force and gorgeous.
I live in SW Ohio and we had brood x cicadas last year and they killed every branch on my 8’ bloodgood the trunk is still green but the branches are dead and no leaves yet I’m hoping it sends new buds out the trunk
We are in the NC mountains that are known for fall leaves but you would be surprised by how many people don’t know that some trees change color in fall or what deciduous means…
@@MrMapleShow explain that a little further for me. Sorry this is a first for me. Purchased the home and the tree was in a awkward position and needed to redo the grass so I moved it to the front of my house
@@Kasuev If I may, ground to ground means they are assuming your tree is not growing in a container. But was in the ground, you dug it out of the ground and replanted it back into the ground in a new location. Sometimes this is called transplanting. Also, Japanese maple trees are deciduous, like oak trees. This means that in the fall, the leaves will change color and then drop to the ground. So, after the leaves have fallen off the tree and before the new leaves begin to grow in the spring, the tree is considered out of leaf. In summary, transplant a tree in fall after the leaves have dropped, or spring before the new leaves appear and possibly winter if the ground does not freeze where you live.
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Wow great video guys thank you so much I love when I get to learn from y'all I feel more at ease now and better equipped!! Thank you again for the new addition to my mental check list I DIG MrMaple!!!!
Great info!! Thanks!!
Thank you very much for this video! 🍁
Very good informative class today, keep the the school going, enjoying every video! I dig Mr. Maple!
I have lost 3 trees out of 50 in the last 2 years. It always happens the same way, in similar leaf jm trees (lilliannes jewel, Hana matoi, and ruby de sofia). The tree will leaf out in the spring looking like it's doing well then the leafs just start wilting. I have tried fertilizer, broad spectrum antifungals, replanting in pure perlite to repair roots, but I just can't save the trees. I keep all my trees in freely draining soils with pine bark perlite and pumice.
All were young trees.
I am pumped!!!!! I am going out to buy one today. Going to plant it also. #1 tip I got from the video. Keep the mulch and dirt away from the side.
Outstanding! I have learned so much! Thank you!
Thanks for the tips and the commitment to making lots of informative videos !!!
My japanese maple has bark damage and the upper part of the tree is not leafing like the bottom of the tree. What do you recommend I should do to the tree?
I’ve ordered several from mr maple. Always been happy! I dig mr maple!
I totally thought it need mostly shade so I planted my 3' tall JM in a shady area. When I found out it actually likes sun, I moved it now at 7' tall to a open area in my yard. The area dirt has clay, gravel and some buried concrete from a patio project so I dug down to remove as much as I could, mixed some compost into the existing soil, then more mix on top. Should get good nutrients and drainage. I can't wait to see how it does.
Drainage is the key above all else for maples
I have a 10+ year old Japanese maple planted in ground. It’s started losing a lot of lower branches this last year. It makes me sad of the thought of losing it. I may need to bring an arborist out to look at it.
Great video. Thanks for the tips. Do you recommend with maples in pots to put a brick or similar underneath the pot when it is on the ground to help the drainage?
Yes for sure that helps a lot
Superb, lots of great info here.
Do you guys restock wisterias during a specific season? I see they are all out of stock right now I’d like to own some wisteria floribunda this spring/summer
We should have a big selection this spring
@@MrMapleShow okay thank you so much I’m really looking forward to it!! I have a few American and sinensis wisterias and really want some Japanese ones next🤩🤩
Hello fellows, I have a question my emperor one Japanese maple has lost all of its leaves as they were scorched from our Texas summer. it has no leaves currently I cut off the remaining scorched leaves. I did a scratch test, the top of the truck is green, the middle of the trunk is green but the base of the truck near the roots it’s brown. I already cut off one of the branches because it was completely brown so I’m not sure if the trees completely dead as it’s
still green in the middle and the top but I don’t see any green near the root at the base of the tree, so should I just wait and see what it might do next spring or Is this tree already in the process of dying?
It has a chance to make it if the buds are healthy. Some stress is common the fist season. It may require more shade next season until it’s established. The steps you took seem all good ones. Depending on how cool you get this fall it may stay dormant until spring but if it’s green underneath and has buds it has a good chance
Make sure it’s not staying to wet also
@@MrMapleShow thank you I’ll stay on it.
Hi like your video on maples...Question I have a bonsai maple for about 6years and had no problems with it until this year. The trunk is green but the branches are brown and no leaves .whats your thoughts, any suggestions? Tku dj
Bonsai can be tricky. They require a lot of root maintenance to stay in a small pot. Have you been shaping it? If not I would bump up to a larger container soon
@@MrMapleShow I have been doing bonsai for over 20years and never had my maple do things like this,so I thought I would ask since my techniques wasn't working any other suggestions. Tku dj
I’m concerned about my coral bark Japanese maple. The top half has turned black (maybe pseudonymous) but I have a few leaves left on the bottom that look healthy bits just leaves out, but I fear it’s planted in a poor drainage location. Water was standing there after the rain we’ve just had! Will it be better off if I lift it out of the ground and pot it up now (even though it’s already leafed out)? Or should I try to just amend the soil some more in the surrounding area?
I would move for sure to see if saved. Water will kill maples for sure in access especially coral barks.
I was also wondering if it is okay to use a product like Preen which prevents annual weeds near a Japanese Maple or would you also consider that a weed killer?
It has been shown to lower cambium size. It doesn’t outright kill them but I can have longer effects and issues
I appreciate all of the information you have provided.
I keep hearing to wet, but what is to wet? Like it rained 8 weeks here in Belgium (some days 16-24 hours). I know in swiss it doenst rain often but if it does it's sometimes 1-3 days with little pause and ALL the japanese maple there were healthy.
My garden has a strategic 'water from terras' is not drained but goes in ground off stones into garden, same is true for garden who goes from high to low (terras is low). this is especially worth it with climate change cause in summer the plants get to few water for sure, but in winter (especially like this one), they get a lot more. The fun fact is even if it rains 24 hours hard (record rain amount), the worst that happened was 3-5cm 'water pool' the fun fact is, next morning all this water was infiltrated in ground, so a true mud it isn't. So it's not SWAMPY yet but very very dry, but i'm sure the top layer will quickly get dry once it's 20°C. So far the Acer Japonicum Aconitifolium is in the most wet part. Have no planted skeeters bloom and orange dream just a bit above it.
While a little, once more roots, weeds other plants fill the garden i hope the the water draining itself will be good. When removing the old terras (much bigger and 4 generation of stone on top of each other), i saw lot of wurms, any wurm i found i trew into undigged territory to spare them (i know they are godsend for ground). Now they are still very present. I didn't give any fertilizer cause i keep hearing Acer Palmatum doesn't really need/want that. Will see. This is the most wet winter since i got garden, hope at leach march has a warm week to dry out the swamp spell.
To wet is standing water for any extended period of time. Maples die if they are holding water. Good drainage is key
@@MrMapleShow'holding water', you mean the trunk or roots? For instance they love shadows, that means, ground will dry less out in summer, so chance if if you turn the ground it's actually wet. For instance, city planted a bloodgood? But it's never watered and next to heat soaking building, they both lots 33% of branches (burned out no more new leaves). These do NOT have wet feet :D Yet they are worse then my trees.
So is there a splash of (permanent water), above the roots? no. Is the ground ultra wet? Yes, the boots sink 3cm in ground top layer cause to much rain. Really hard to make an estimation about this. At some point we also had non stop 30 miles an hours windspeed, (at relative warm 10°C) it didnt remove water from top layer, but it dried it out a little preventing pools or anything.
In ultra hot weather (40°c record tempts here, earlier records were 36), dried out top 30cm and lower lvl also wasnt good. This is why i made this 'wadi' (dont know english word, it's a little pool where water is able to infiltrate ground and dry out at times but overflood at times too). This means once the rampage of 20-40°C for 7-9 months start, the ground will always have an amount of backup, that will get them tru biggest drought with minimal watering. The ground structure is also better, it cant crack, like in extreme situations.
We'll see who's right soon. But you are kinda conflicting yourself 'it need watering' 'it needs to be dry at root level, no 'clogging', once you water or it rains, or is winter and rains, 'ground is cloggy' there is no way around, it may not be swampy but it is cloggy. If this advice was truly true lot more trees would die.
Another thing, there is a well next to the japanse maples, once it's hot, this will dry out the top later faster, but the layer under that will have it's own stury layer of water supply.
@@Matti6950 It’s not a complicated concept to understand. Japanese Maples do not like to be in a lot of water. They never like standing water. Roots or trunk doesn’t matter. It’s very simple. Extremely simple. Watch the video again and listen to it. Follow the advice
The earth is not the problem, it's the kind garden centers like you purchase 'farm earth' we call it', After a day of rain (even 40mm or liter)/per square meter, all rain goes inside ground, so there is no lake forming. However, since it has rained 400-700mm/square meter in 3 months, it is very wet, and you sink in a little big into the ground, we need 20+°C to fix it (soon in march i think we'll get that). So far Acer aconitifolium doesn't seem to dislike it, the other two are in slightly better position (higher then from lowest position). In summer there is no way this ground will be 'to wet', it's not clay at all etc. Only fall ultra rain might be problem, but then again, wich ground can resist 1000 liter per square meter in 3 months? I don't think that's any type of 'clogging' you can fix, you keep saying clogging is something that you can fix, but except not planing next to a lake i don't think you can fix it.
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What about the buds.? The buds of my Japanese maple are dying, they get black like they were burned. I don't know if it's water or fungus.
I have the same problem right now.. it grew new foliage and that happened. The bottom leaves are green with white spots but doesn't look like mildew
Any luck with this?
@@byronszohner3586same with mine :(
@@llrainll turns out my problem was I have extremely hard water and Japanese maples aren't a fan. Had to use soil with gypsum and a slightly acidic fertilizer
What does it mean if it's holding its leaves and there is new growth, but the branches are DROOPING?? I have a 5 ft tall Final Fire JM that we planted a couple weeks ago. We followed all the instructions we could find. I'm growing concerned. We live in the Seattle area where JMs are abundant. Our neighborhood is covered in them. I can't find any PICTURES of what over-watering or under-watering or over-fertilizing or under-fertilizing actually look like.
It can mean the tree is in a shock. Check to make sure it’s not to wet by hand
My emperor 1 was in a pot on my porch and the leaves shriveled up in the summer here in Southern California and then in the winter it dropped all the leaves. I was ready to throw it away and it got new leaves. I was shocked to see new leaves. I planted it underneath another tree and I am hoping it will survive in its new spot. 🤞
They should always go dormant in winter
Thank you. Should I plant some small plants at the base of my emperor 1 to keep the roots cool. If so what plants should I get.
Spring looked good now summer looks bad. It has some green fungus on the branches maybe from the roof tiles which has the fungus. Tried watching the water with the moister meter. Moved the diseased leaves away from the tree which is about 20 years old. Maybe I should use some fertilizer.....
Thanks!
My maple only grew new healthy leaves on the bottom half of the tree but the top half is bare, any suggestions
I have just discovered that a rabbit has eaten almost all of the branches off of my Little Sango :-( The snow was quite high these last two months and that enabled the bunny to get to the higher branches. Do you think it can survive?
It really just depends on how much damage was done. Is the cambium is stripped all the way around the plant it may have die back to that point
@@MrMapleShow Thank you for your reply :-) It appears they did not touch the trunk, just ate most of the branches from the delicate tips back toward center, leaving branch stubs. They did the same to my young Gold Rush Dawn Redwood.
Great video I have a weeping Japanese maple that is putting vertical up shoots what should I do.
If it is a green upright and below the graft it should be completely removed back to trunk. If it is above the graft and consistent with the other foliage just stake or train it. Likely it’s below and you should remove. I’ll add a video on this soon also
Is there another problem called windburn? I saw that on someone's video. I had a local nursery plant an Emperor 1 tree last year and the tree suddenly got dried out in September. It was doing fine all summer. Only the lowest branches came back this spring. I was probably about 7 feet tall when it was planted.
Windburn is not commonly an issue unless there are extreme winds (consistent 40 mph+ winds). Humidity changes in the fall so it would likely be a watering issue.
@@MrMapleShow Thanks for your help.
Mine dropped all of its leaves during summer but grew they grew back before the start of fall as of today coming back from school a few hours away. Not easy to grow them in containers in zone 8, but if you follow the science it will work out.
Question for you guys at Mr. Maple. My Japanese maple simply did not bud so far this year in NC. It's May now. Are they sometimes late bloomers? I inspect the tree about 2 or 3 times a week, still no buds. Only thing I did was fed it one food spike last summer, under the outer canopy of the leaves in the ground. Is there hope for this JM or is it done?
Some can be later to leaf but you should something starting by this stage. Check it’s drainage
Hi Guys it's really hot here in my place and suddenly from a weeks ago one of my maple tree leaves are turning brown at the leaf outward edges.Is the heat and sun rays killing the maple tree.Any suggestions appreciated.Gteetings from Kashmir
I dig Mr Maple and especially these tips. I had just purchased a Shojo Hime from a nursery last spring that was going out of business due to retirement and two days later had powdery mildew. Yikes! It survived but I was now concerned for my other 25 JM on the patio (yeah, hooked). Everything is fine but just the knowledge of what to expect, do-not do, puts me back in control instead of being reactionary. And yes, I looked up how to address the powdery mildew issue.
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Thank you for the videos. Can you please make a video about root pruning for keeping maples in containers? Do you guys agree with this practice?
We have great videos on both
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I've got 4 Japanese maple all in indirect sunlight 2 looking very bad and 2 looking OK any clue what's wrong with the 2 sick ones
Email pics to our office. Thanks for watching.
Been trying I'll ask the kids when they come in .thanks
What is your email address to send the picture
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My Maple is in a container and does really well in the spring but then in the early summer the leaves crinkle on the edges but do not fall off the tree. The soil is moist and not dry. It has done this for 2 years in row now. I live in Southern California and the tree us under a 50% shade area. What do you think could be the problem?
Same same same and I live in the PNW. I am so worried. Someone said to mulch it..I am going to try that.😔
My young 'Summer Gold' is dying :( It rained for several days. After two days of rain, I hid the clones inside. They are all dried up and doing fine, but Summer still has wet soil (the same in all the containers) and it is fading. What should I do? wait or take the plant out and put it in a new soil?
I have two maple trees in pots and one of them is not doing well. Any suggestions? Can I email you with pictures as reference?
Re the bare root planting. I received mine from Mr Maple in very, very loose soil so when planting it in a pot, much of the soil fell away from it. What to do if that's the problem with it?
If you are going into a pot the best thing to do is just pack in the soil around and be sure not to bury the graft or bury too low. In the future please reach out to our office if there is a problem with the tree or with shipping. We are always happy to remedy any issues. Thanks for your business and thanks for watching.
Great video. I recently moved my Japanese maple in the Summer here in the UK. It was really not doing well where I originally planted it and my Next Door Neighbor keeps spraying the fence with paint and he kept getting paint on the leaves. Its a smaller Japanese maple but still. I then took the idea and I went out bought a big pot with a drainage hole and some stands to put it on and re-potted it. It seemed okay for the first week but recently I have noticed its leaves are dropping off it. I'm scared its going to die. I will go out and buy the Superthrive. I did use some Acer feed in the soil when I re-plotted it as I read somewhere else they love that feed.
if branches have died in the summer should i cut them off . Mine dried out from a very hot summer but its still green on the bottom of the tree.
Yes if they are crunchy
@@MrMapleShow ok thank you for replying 😃
so I just planted an emperor 1, about 5' tall from a nursery container in zone 6b. I know this variety buds out later than other maples, but the buds on mine haven't really started swelling yet. I cut a small branch, and the wood was fresh, so I don't think it's dead. I planted with land and sea compost and some worm castings. any idea what's going on? watering/drought isn't the issue, at least I think.
Did your tree ever leaf out?
I have a Japanese Maple that is covered with Lichen, when I try to remove the lichen by rubbing it off and if I hit a stem it just snaps off and the stem looks all dried out, does this mean the tree is dead or dying?
Lichen is normal on older trees and doesn’t hurt the maple at all
Should my Red Coral Japanese Maple - planted in April in zone 8a, be turning red already- End of May? We have heavy clay soil, but they added lots of sand to the hole.
Make sure it’s not staying to wet. If it is in more of a fall color change that can be from stress. That is typically a good time to plant but also make sure it isn’t planted to deeply
My father and I love Japanese maples since i was lil girl. I've purchased an old farmhouse almost 4 years ago in harrisburg, pa and have been establishing some great gardens that included maples of course. My father came to live with me here a couple years ago batteling cancer. He passed away June of last year. He picked all the maples he wanted some of his ashes in. All of them have flourished except my emmits pumpkin and my favorite... uncle ghost! 😪. I followed my nurserys direction as these were 2 were in pots. They told me i could over winter them in these pots just keep them next to the house. They survived our winter adhd had great buds ready to leaf out and then we had a week of so of frost. I didn't think anything of it and now they're still sitting doing nothing. I scratched the main stem and i seen a but of green so i was hopeful. But still nothing new in the way of growth. I did fertilize and water but nothing. What did i do wrong. It's so heartbreaking especially because a lil ofmy father's ashes were planted with them. They'r in huge urns and did well all last year. If i lose these i must buy these exact kind again
Did you try SUPERthrive on the maple? How is the Maple now?
@@jasric89 no i didn't. They both did not survive unfortunately. Going to try and repurchase and try again. This time I'll try to over winter in the garage. Thank you so much for the response
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Love the videos and info. All of my jps are in ceramic pots and I am afraid they get to hot in the summer. I live right outside of Athens, Ga, in zone 8. I started lining my pots with thick pieces of Styrofoam and then putting the trees in the nursery pots inside the
Pots, I also put rocks and mulch in the bottom of the ceramic pots and sit them on bricks to insure they drain correctly.
Help! I think my Japanese Maple was poisoned by some Nutsedge killer. Leaves were beautiful in the spring, we had to re-sod most of our yard in the summer, my wife sprayed some “Sedgehammer” to try to get rid of it out of the tilled yard before sodding. I’m afraid the tree must’ve soaked some up. ALL leaves have turned to a brown, crunchy state. The limbs still seem quite pliable, so I don’t think it’s dead yet. Can I do anything to save it? Perhaps good fertilizer to add some nutrients to help it?
I’m not going to sugar coat it that isn’t good for sure. Greatly depends on exposure and size. If it is movable you may want to try to get it into some fresh soil and see. If it has buds sometimes that’s good.
@@MrMapleShow Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately, I can’t move it, it’s a mature tree firmly rooted in one of our flowerbeds (it’s about 6’, around 8-10 years old). I went ahead and fed it about a gallon of miracle gro mix (1 granular tblspoon to 1 gal water) about a foot around the trunk, hoping for the best. I guess I’ll keep an eye out for either any signs of new growth or brittleness of limbs.
Great video, learned a lot.
My Japanese Maple (A. palmatum) has dead limbs that I just cut off. Some of them just broke off when I put my hand on them. The tree is very thick and beautiful otherwise. Is there a way to diagnose the tree? I don't fertilize or water it. I just leave it alone. It has none of the issues you discuss in this video, so I'm guessing it must be disease. What should I do?
I have a twin stem mature acer around 20 years old or more but the larger stem has dried out and died apart from some very minor growth on one branch. The other stem is vigorous with lots of leaves. Should I fell the whole tree?
Really just depends on if it is still appealing
@@MrMapleShow thank you! If I felled the dead stem do you think the other stem will die?
I’m in western NC too, it’s May and mine hasn’t budded yet is it probably dead?
Help! I have an infestation on my bloodgood… small spiders, baby millipedes, other baby worms & aphids. My tree started blooming in early May and now those buds are dead. How can I treat the various infestations? Thank you!!! I have tried natural DE and a little bit of neem oil (bad idea).
Use insecticidal soap
@@MrMapleShow Thank you. I purchased that yesterday after watching another of your videos.
@@MrMapleShow What is the best soil brand for Japanese maples, that actually drains well? I used Happy Frog and it does not seem to drain well, which could have created the infestation and dormant tree in the current spring. 😞😞😞
Any suggestions zone 8 clay soil leaves are burning because of sun any shade products I can place over my tree
August 23, my beautiful acer shriveled in May/June, it now has really good leaves sprouting from the base of the plant but nothing from branches... ? maybe it was underwatered in hot weather..
Very possible. If you have healthy buds you should be ok
Very informative
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What is the best soil brand for Japanese maples, that actually drains well? I used Happy Frog and it does not seem to drain well, which could have created the infestation and dormant tree in the current spring. 😞😞😞
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My tree Japanese maple 🍁 is well established it’s about12 ft tall but we had a very hot summer in Tn I did water it but maybe not in time, it looks like half of my tree is dying and the other half looks ok, what can I do?
Hi... I am having the same problem this year. Very hot. Tree has dry branches... Did your tree survive? Any suggestions..
Hi guys, great video. I am in Hendersonville and recently bought 13 beautiful trees from you. I am paranoid about over watering or under watering. Since planting, some leaves, not excessive have turned brown. For the past few weeks we have strong dry winds, usually for a few hours in the afternoon. I have heard that these winds can be tough on the trees. Could this be contributing to some brown leaves? If so, any suggestions? Thanks
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My seedling I have started to grow has odd leaves. The first leaves look okay but all new leaves look deformed. Odd shapes, poor growth - they just look weird. Any ideas?
Over watered perhaps. I've noticed if I'm overwatering the new growth looks deformed
Why is my Japanese maple dying tue branches are getting black and drying!!! In texas it's super hoy 106 above 100 for like 2 months already !! It's in partial shade and I water it every 3 or 4 days when the soils is dry and the leaves are all wrinkle
It’s likely to wet then
@@MrMapleShow u think it will die or what should I do to fix it it's sooo sad 😔!!! Thank u for answering me
Hi my Japanese maple was so healthy during spring time and suddenly all the leaves started turning brown and fell off pls help
Any suggestion of how many lbs of N a Japanese maple should get per year?
Very low. I don’t think it could even be measured in lbs for a single plant. I use a 15 or lower on the nitrogen and then as the specific fertilizer instructs.
@@MrMapleShow OK, good to know was planning to use something like plant tone after the first year which is a 5-3-3 so it sounds like that is the right track.
My trees aren’t dropping they are shriveling up? It’s in the shade and on drip? Using quarter inch drip. I have a picture.
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What about wind? Can you talk about how they respond to high winds. What to do to protect them from high winds. Thank you
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Really helpful. Thanks so much. Love Japanese maples. Chose the wrong situation for my collection in containers and they got bad leaf burn. Thought I’d lost them. This year they’re back in force and gorgeous.
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I live in SW Ohio and we had brood x cicadas last year and they killed every branch on my 8’ bloodgood the trunk is still green but the branches are dead and no leaves yet I’m hoping it sends new buds out the trunk
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1:15 being from PA... Well... Yeah.. Trees change color. -.-
We are in the NC mountains that are known for fall leaves but you would be surprised by how many people don’t know that some trees change color in fall or what deciduous means…
Will ivy kill my Japanese maple? If it’s under it?
It can is it covers it
@@MrMapleShow I planted it a around my maple and I’ve heard the ivy takes all the water from the tree.
@@MrMapleShow I’m worried the ivy roots are too big over it.
And the ivy takes all the water from the tree.
@@denisestrittmatter595 maples do not like a lot of root competition
How do you water so many maples in the tunnel at the same time? Do they not get fungal infections being so close to each other? 🤔
We have multiple wells abs we treat for fungus
@@MrMapleShow wells abs?
Uh oh i bought maples for the first time this month and put them in pots 😮😮😮 did i kill them because its summertime?
No they can do great in pots with good drainage
I just relocated my tree and the leafs are drying up.
We only recommend moving them from ground to ground out of leaf
@@MrMapleShow explain that a little further for me. Sorry this is a first for me. Purchased the home and the tree was in a awkward position and needed to redo the grass so I moved it to the front of my house
@@Kasuev If I may, ground to ground means they are assuming your tree is not growing in a container. But was in the ground, you dug it out of the ground and replanted it back into the ground in a new location. Sometimes this is called transplanting.
Also, Japanese maple trees are deciduous, like oak trees. This means that in the fall, the leaves will change color and then drop to the ground. So, after the leaves have fallen off the tree and before the new leaves begin to grow in the spring, the tree is considered out of leaf.
In summary, transplant a tree in fall after the leaves have dropped, or spring before the new leaves appear and possibly winter if the ground does not freeze where you live.
Repotting shock it sounds like🤷🏽♀️🇬🇧
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