Whicked Red Maple update / Leaf question???

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Whicked collected Maple update:


May 22nd I came across this really cool Red Maple when clearing out a friends back yard. I knew it was little late in spring to collect, but the trunk was to unique not to at least try and it would of been thrown in a wood chipper if not Was willing to give it a shot. So just under a month and it's doing great.!! New buds forming all over and even new branching. Every leaf is new and all is looking normal except these leaves at the top of the highest branch. They look deformed ? I know certain trees will give off weird leaves if they are lacking something, but every other leaf looks perfect. Was thinking maybe sunburn, but leaves edges don't look like a sunburn leaf? Not bugs, I check every day and had my share of bug problems in the pass wit bonsai. Also the leaves edges aren't chewed. If lacking a nutrient wouldn't all leaves be like that?..... First 2 pictures are right when collected. The remaining pictures are new growth of the deformed and normal leaves
 

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Just fungus, treat with daconil weekly for three weeks.

Gonna be hard to make this "epic" if you don't know what anthracnose is. Probably one of the most common maladies a maple can get. Read about it, learn to spot the signs and how to treat if you wish to make epic trees. While not fatal once in a season, repeated infestations will kill branches.

You don't have many to lose......
 
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IIRC, you've done work to this tree already, something you shouldn't be doing. You've been cutting the branches back and you can't be doing that to a tree that is just collected. That's part of your problem.

Let it be for a year or two.
 
IIRC, you've done work to this tree already, something you shouldn't be doing. You've been cutting the branches back and you can't be doing that to a tree that is just collected. That's part of your problem.

Let it be for a year or two.

Newly collected tree's should not be touched the first year period! There are exceptions to this rule but you need to know what your doing. Treat with fungicide and let grow wild all year. I have a ton of red maples, once it's established it'll be super strong and can be worked.
 
The only only thing I cut back was some one long branch that was snapped alittle at the top and some foliage. Only because I wasn't able to gather a ton of the roots. I tried to balance out the foliage with root system. Yes you see in the other pictures that branches are cut, but they are dead. The whole front side of the tree is dead. Only the back side is alive and that's where the live branching it coming out of. The dead branches I cut back because they were super long and I left them just in case I ever wanted to do a little dead wood. I'm not a brand new guy at Bonsai lol. I'd never to work on a bonsai I recently collected. I never have in past years and won't plan on it ever in the future unless it involves saving it. When collecting and a tree survives it, I'm thrilled it made it. Why jeopardize that?
 
I'm just guessing but another thread on this tree is technically messing with it too, again just trouble shooting..
 
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