Time for deep fried maple again.

[Mike Corazzi]

As usual, my palmatum has crisped up like burnt bacon.
Maybe I should salt the leaves and eat em.

And this ...AFTER.... I spent 2 hours earlier in the year putting up a shade cloth barrier over the existing latticework that was CLEARLY not good enough. Even with ONLY morning sun.
Then we got that SOUTH wind a couple weeks ago.,

And....for another season.... the maple is all crisped up.

 

[sorce]

Unfair Oaks Huh?

Mike. Skip the maples?

Sorce

 

[Mike Corazzi]

GOOD advice. I will pot this ONCE MORE but in the biggest deepest hugest pot I can find.

Maybe even put it in the yard.

Glad I don't have the ones I used to have. This is the only ONE.

 

[JudyB]

Mike, I'm wondering if it could be getting too much wind as well as the heat and shade issue. Where I live can be very windy, and I've had much better luck with leaf health in the summers protecting from the wind as well as too much sun and heat. I know your climate is very different from mine. Good luck.

 

[Dav4]

Judy's right...wind and maples don't mix well, particularly when it's hot.

 

[whfarro]

Hot wind is like a convection oven for Maples.

 

[Eric Group]

Deff the wind with heat. Full sun isn't really the issue most of the time with them. Slapping it in a huge pot isn't likely to help either. Water it MORE, and protect from wind.

Remove the crispy leaves, and you should get a new flush this year if the tree is healthy.. Keep the tree in full sun until the new leaves come out and they should be more tolerant of heat and sun and not quite as likely to get fried.

 

[Cotyledon]

I'm in zone 6 Long Island , and I have to move my maples into full shade of north side of my house for July and August . Idk how ppl get those perfect jap maples

 

[sorce]

P.s. welcome to Crazy!

That avatar tree looks nice!
You have any good news?

Sorce

 

[Mike Corazzi]

Mike, I'm wondering if it could be getting too much wind as well as the heat and shade issue. Where I live can be very windy, and I've had much better luck with leaf health in the summers protecting from the wind as well as too much sun and heat. I know your climate is very different from mine. Good luck.

Zackly. I labored and sweated to put up the shade cloth that blocked the NORMAL wind direction.
Thennnnn....... we went away for a day when wind had shifted. A ...HOT....day.
Maples and me might be divorcing. Coors when it's down to ONE, that ain't much of a change.

Other than building a 360 degree walled compound for .....IT..... I'm just gonna resign myself to another shrivelly year.