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    No New Growth This Season

    Yes. Correct.
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    No New Growth This Season

    Do you also winterize them in a greenhouse?
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    No New Growth This Season

    I repot every 2 years and I always cut back hard. I've had these trees for a very long time and I always treat them the same during repoting.
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    No New Growth This Season

    Temps don't drop below 32f. 7 years ago I lost 3 nice trees to what I think was do to their roots freezing for too long and ever since I protect the tress more. My greenhouse is only 4 years old and this is the first time this happens.
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    No New Growth This Season

    Unfortunately I just got home and because of the beauty of daylight savings time it was already dark. I'm posting the pictures I took with my phone with flash, but I these are useless. I think your #1 reason might be the most interesting option. I would agree with you with the hornbeam, trident...
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    No New Growth This Season

    The lowest temps in the greenhouse is 32f. They all drop their leaves so they definitely go dormant. They are very healthy looking, just not growing. All of these trees are 25 and over in years. On the coldest day in winter (I'm in NJ) if there's sun outside, temps in the greenhouse can reach...
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    No New Growth This Season

    What causes trees to stop growing? I ask because I have 4 trees (Chinese elm, trident maple, Korean Hornbeam and Pyracantha) that didn't grow 1' this season. All above trees were repotted this past spring, they were all fed every 2 weeks. These are all older trees, above 25 years old. Their...
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    Failed airlayer on Shishigashira

    Hello everyone. Can anyone here tell me a possible reason why an airlayer can fail and also, what would cause the airlayer part to turn brown? I also included pictures of another airlayer on same tree that remains green. Both airlayers were started in the middle of May of this year. Thanks for...
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    32 year old Acer Rubrum

    Ho How successful were you in reducing the leaf size? I know these trees have very large leaves as I have one in front of my property. Very nice work.
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    Green Island Ficus

    Hello everyone. This tree was a beauty at one point. (Before and after pictures attached). Right after summer ended, it to lose all of its leaves and I thought it was dead. I scratched the upper trunk to confirm that it was dead and I thought it was. I tossed it underneath one of my benches and...
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    Acer palmatum var. beni chidori

    I would fly to England in the winter and buy a very small one from Peter Chan and bring it in my luggage bare root. Customs would never suspect. But that's just me.
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    Crabapple Thread Graft

    Hello everyone. I have a 50+ year old crabapple that I did a thread graft 2 years ago. Last spring 2021 I removed the mother plant and the graft seemed fine. This spring however the leaves on the graft seem smaller than the rest of the tree. I would like to defoliate the entire tree and only...
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    Shohin Ume question.

    The branch is solid, I also checked for insects underneath the leaves but didn't find anything.
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    Shohin Ume question.

    I have this Ume and 1 of the branches seems to be having a problem. The leaves are drooping on this one branch and falling off green. I recently removed the moss covered soil so I suspect that it wasn't getting enough water, but now it should be getting adequate amounts of water. I was hoping...
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