Kojo No Mai Cherry yellowing leaf

[M. Frary]

Thanks Grimmy...I recently seen one commenting on the flushing of hot water in the hose line before watering.

I spray it on the invasive snow on the mountain around the house. On a hot day the hot water really does a number on it.

 

[GrimLore]

invasive snow

Did you HAVE to wreck my morning with thoughts of snow

Grimmy

 

[M. Frary]

The thought of snow gives me the shivers too!

 

[ColinFraser]

The thought of snow gives me the shivers too!

What is this plague of which you speak?!

 

[aframe]

Why would you defoliate cherry? They are grown and enjoyed while in flower, not in leaf.

It's common for many species, like cherry and Japanese flowering quince and even Japanese flowering apricot bonsai to lose most, or even all, of the foliage in mid to late summer. I think that's normal and do not worry about it. Just check to see if good buds have developed for next years flowers and fruit.

Mr. V
I lightly pruned my ume mid spring of '14; it responded by pushing very vigorous growth, shoots and leafs. That winter it produced the most flowers I've seen on it. Is vigorous vegetative growth correlated to flower yield?
This year I did not prune or repot after flowering as I kept shoots to make cuttings back in July. my ume did not push much vegetative growth.

 

[JoeR]

So does this look normal?

All of the old leaves are turning this color and falling off however its pushing tons of new growth, buds, and flowers.


Heres the healthy new growth and flowers:

 

[LanceMac10]

Here is a shot from yesterday, finally starting to shed some leaves!!




Seems to still be growing, moved it to this spot a few weeks ago and this shoot was on the other side of the granite top corner!!

 

[Hump]

Same issue here. Was looking for help and ran across your post. I bought this last spring so this is my first year having it. Planned on air layers some of it. Did anyone ever find the real answer to this issue. Anything I should do. It's in regular organic medium atm as I didn't want to stress it repotting the same year I got it. I was afraid it was over watered with the yellow leaves, but then again it has brown crispy ones too.

Edit: Now that I think of it, I had it in dappled light until recently, and it didn't have this issue. It's been on full sun for the past month 1/2, maybe full sun is the issue?

 

[Trueblackpercula]

Hi you may find some answers here as I found that she loves lots of sun and water when the soil is almost dry. When mine looked like that I defoliated a little at a time over a few days until she was completely leafless. Soon after the tree just exploded with new growth.
Check out my thread.

Prunus Incisa help

Hi everyone I will try and keep this short and to the point. I am fairly new to Bonsai as I have not kept one in over 20 years because I never really had a back yard or the Time to dedicate to one/them. But with that said I looked for many years to try and get a dwarf prunus and last week...

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michael

 

[Kevin Mask]

I bought mine in spring after the blossom, and now it's doing exactly the same, crispy burned leaves at the edge and many of them yellowing and falling, I'm in Italy and temperature here is going from 28 to 35 degrees celsius, I normally water it once a day when the sun goes down, I've started to water it twice a day since the post is rather small, is it normal? anybody found a definiteve remedy?

 

[Hump]

I bought mine in spring after the blossom, and now it's doing exactly the same, crispy burned leaves at the edge and many of them yellowing and falling, I'm in Italy and temperature here is going from 28 to 35 degrees celsius, I normally water it once a day when the sun goes down, I've started to water it twice a day since the post is rather small, is it normal? anybody found a definiteve remedy?

Wow you're experiencing the same exact thing as I am. I like how upright yours is. Great looking tree. I'm beginning to think this is just something the prunus incisa does mid summer.

 

[Kevin Mask]

Wow you're experiencing the same exact thing as I am. I like how upright yours is. Great looking tree. I'm beginning to think this is just something the prunus incisa does mid summer.

Thank you, yes it has a nice shape considering it was the last one they had when I looked for it, this is a full picture a couple of days before leaves started to yellow. Relieved to hear this thing is normal in summer, hopefully it'll recover as soon as the temperature goes down

 

[Kevin Mask]

Old thread but I wanted to show that despite the leaves issues I had last summer my Kojo no mai just bloomed and it looks beautiful, what do you think?