Beeches, are yours awake yet??

[g-gioffs]

Here are some pictures.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

I’m worried for my Am. Beech. I’ve had it training in the ground for 2 years. There is a plastic lid with holes ,6 inches under the roots, hoping to splay the roots out. I did trim it back a little a few months ago. This winter wasn’t that harsh, ( we’re in Delaware). I feel like it should have pushed out by now. I plan on taking it out of the ground and putting it in a training pot, ( should of done it last year). How do I tell if it’s alive, scratch the trunk?

I wouldn’t scratch the trunk on a beech, it will be there forever. Get the trunk wet instead and see if you can tell that way. Are the beeches in your neighborhood leafed out yet? It’s late, but stuff happens and maybe yours is just sleeping in...

 

[coachspinks]

What is your location? Yours looks exactly like mine just before the leaves opened. I scratched, very lightly, the trunk each week. Finding green made me feel better.

 

[g-gioffs]

What is your location? Yours looks exactly like mine just before the leaves opened. I scratched, very lightly, the trunk each week. Finding green made me feel better.

Delaware, near Philadelphia.

 

[g-gioffs]

I wouldn’t scratch the trunk on a beech, it will be there forever. Get the trunk wet instead and see if you can tell that way. Are the beeches in your neighborhood leafed out yet? It’s late, but stuff happens and maybe yours is just sleeping in...

Yes, most all beeches have leafed out. When I wet the trunk, what am I looking for?

 

[WNC Bonsai]

I am in WNC and mine are just starting to show green through the outer sheaths. I expect mine to pop today or tomorrow. Last year they opened on April 29 like clockwork. Be patient and let your tree catch up with the climate.

 

[leatherback]

Yes, most all beeches have leafed out. When I wet the trunk, what am I looking for?

Dark green shine, rather than an oker red shine to the bark

 

[AlainK]

... not quite :

 

[TN_Jim]

They want to...like this odd one I bent up rather than planting back in the landscape. However, like last year, the couple I collected this year are showing no signs yet and expected to be the last of the last..

 

[leatherback]

They want to...like this odd one I bent up rather than planting back in the landscape. However, like last year, the couple I collected this year are showing no signs yet and expected to be the last of the last..

Duplicating my tree are you?

 

[TN_Jim]

Duplicating my tree are you?
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Whaa!!?
That’s awesome.
Answer: yes

 

[g-gioffs]

Dark green shine, rather than an oker red shine to the bark

I got the green shine, fingers crossed.

 

[Aeast]

Mine are still creeping along, only a little green showing through.

 

[eryk2kartman]

Mine leafed out last weekend, but not all of them.

 

[Silentrunning]

Mine leafed out over the weekend. I didn’t loose a branch. Yaaaaa!

 

[Forsoothe!]

3 Japanese Beech unmoved by a late spring.

 

[Doug J]

No signs of life yet on my beeches or my tilia.

 

[Djtommy]

This is mine today, mostly opened.

 

[Doug J]

No signs of life yet on my beeches or my tilia.

First bud break on 1 out of 10 trees April 30 zone 6a

 

[WNC Bonsai]

Ok, mine started pooping a couple days ago and most branches have now extended several inches. This begs the point as to whether cutting these back to 2 or so leaves will induce buds to pop in the remaining leaf axils? In other words how do I get these darned things to ramify and also to put out new buds further back? Do we need a new thread for that subject. BTW here a pics of mine. It was collected a year ago in Feb 2018. I plan to keep it essentially as a literatti.

First 2 days ago



And today