Message from @Thomas Morrow
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I bought a Japanese maple and it looks like it’s dying. I’m not sure how to treat it if I’m even able to save the tree.
My wife says it may be too much sun, just leave it there and it will adapt.
Has it been at a Home Depot or a garden center of some sort?
I didn't even realize this garden server was here! Awesome
I was told to try Ortho Fungicide. But it was purchased at a local nursery.
Don't use fungicides!!!
Fungus plays a very important part in the soil food web and messing with it is just asking for problems
It’s consumed my tree so fast, I’m afraid whatever this is will take over the entire tree in the next week or two.
Japanese maples are supposed to be a hardy tree. 🙄 I’m now nervous about planting the rest of our shrubs and flowers. Ughh lol
It's honestly probably just heat
It doesn't look like anything fungal to me, nor does it look like a nutrient deficiency
It doesn't look like anything is eating it either
What does the rest of the plant look like? If it's even all over like that I'd have to agree with Alfred up there- probably too much sun
@MaryJuneVoss - SC#2855 do you use chemical fertilizers? The more I look at it it looks burned(like a chemical kind of burn)
@MaryJuneVoss - SC That top picture is sunburn. No question.
@MaryJuneVoss - SC give it some miracle grow and it will perk right up. The problem is the roots have not adjusted yet and are not naturalizing into the soil. Looks like not enough water as well
Reeeee don't poison your soil with that garbage
It’s done wonders for my Pine and fir trees
How often do you have to feed it?
It may as well be named "miracle soil sterilizer"
Well to get them established, I would water them with it every other week for 2 years. It’s at my parents and they were able to become established and they do fine on their own now
I didn’t know that but I haven’t had any problems, maybe that’s how I have had problems growing seedlings then
Like less than an inch tall
Yeah man it messes with the soil food web big time
If I didn’t use it on all those trees I planted they would have died like the ones my dad planted haha
I suppose your right
Oh
But the soil was clay anyway, so it isn’t idealistic to grow in
Most soil has clay in it. If you feel the need to feed the soil something just make some compost tea or something
Feed the soil not the plants...
Seriously though all these plants did fine for years without us
Yea, I’m impatient
The more you put your hand in it to "fix" things the more it's going to mess up
That's oftentimes the problem haha
I HIGHLY recommend reading this book
You have to understand that your soil is alive and that there is an entire food chain maintaining the balance
(Or there's supposed to be if we'd stop messing with it by constantly trying to "correct" problems we think exist)