Orion_metalhead
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Idk what Ill do with this but saw it growing in parent's yard and dug it in April.
Age: 2yrs?
Training: 1yr
Width: .19"
Height: 14"
Age: 2yrs?
Training: 1yr
Width: .19"
Height: 14"
Acer Saccharinum (Silver Maple) #1
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Orion_metalhead
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Update. Trimmed where tree split into three.
Before:
After:
Hope to get some back budding or something this year lower for some options.
Before:
After:
Hope to get some back budding or something this year lower for some options.
Orion_metalhead
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Seems happy enough.
Potential new leader lowwww on the trunk.
Potential new leader lowwww on the trunk.
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End of year. Grew well. Just beginning to color up to a nice neutral yellow. It needs to be cut down next year before spring and get a repotting. Its roots are erupting from the bottom of the pot. Added about 1/4" of thickness to the trunk as well.
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Worked this guy today and got him in one of the seven grow boxes I built yesterday.
Before...
Looks like a good fit.
Easy prep for the grow box, just stapled some window screening in.
Out of the pot, raked out the surface down to a decent start of nebari. Will need some more work, but not too bad for only being repotted once.
Mess of tangled roots. I wanted to try keeping as much as possible, but so many roots had intertwined into the bottom of the pot's screening that I had to cut off more than I wanted. I kept a lot, still, but instead of only removing 25%-30% of roots, I removed closer to 50%. Im not worried... silver maples are tough.
Projected front. Will use that low vertical bud as new leader and cut back this summer after seeing how the tree grows.
Complete with beer can for scale.
Possible long term styling idea. Silver maples grow weird and wild, lots of random side branches and often as a low clumpy tree. I'm thinking of going for something like that, low, wide, with at least one branch that "breaks the rules" like this tree often naturally does. The orange area is a concern due to it's straightness so I may need somehow kink that somehow for just a tiny bit of movement:
Before...
Looks like a good fit.
Easy prep for the grow box, just stapled some window screening in.
Out of the pot, raked out the surface down to a decent start of nebari. Will need some more work, but not too bad for only being repotted once.
Mess of tangled roots. I wanted to try keeping as much as possible, but so many roots had intertwined into the bottom of the pot's screening that I had to cut off more than I wanted. I kept a lot, still, but instead of only removing 25%-30% of roots, I removed closer to 50%. Im not worried... silver maples are tough.
Projected front. Will use that low vertical bud as new leader and cut back this summer after seeing how the tree grows.
Complete with beer can for scale.
Possible long term styling idea. Silver maples grow weird and wild, lots of random side branches and often as a low clumpy tree. I'm thinking of going for something like that, low, wide, with at least one branch that "breaks the rules" like this tree often naturally does. The orange area is a concern due to it's straightness so I may need somehow kink that somehow for just a tiny bit of movement:
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I would cut back to just above the node in the orange oval. That would shorten the straight segment. Now or later, after the trunk has thickened up some.
Cmd5235
Chumono
A little anthracnose going on?
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Not sure where you see this?
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Fair, though I wonder if that still leaves too straight a section from roots to that point.. i guess we will see how it grows this year, if that low bud pops and takes off, of if others appear elsewhere on the trunk.
Cmd5235
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Wasn’t sure if that’s what’s causing the tips to turn black
Orion_metalhead
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Anthracnose usually is much more sever of a blackness and through the whole leaf. I think that is just sun burn. Tree was in full sun through the heat of summer. No shade.
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My other silver maple is leafing out. The one in this thread should be following soon. Buds started to swell a couple days ago.
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Was planning on repotting this tree this year but never got to it before it leafed out what with kids and work and all. I really like the colors on the young leaves.
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Like I said, I was hoping to repot this year but I will likely put off till next year now. I probably wouldn't have any issue, but the tree is still doing well and the soil drains so it's not urgent.
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A couple more photos this morning.
The low branch i want to grow as new leader is alive, its just starting to bud out now. Its a week or so behind.
The low branch i want to grow as new leader is alive, its just starting to bud out now. Its a week or so behind.
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Ininaatigoons
Shohin
Very nice progression with pictures.
Kievnstavick
Shohin
I like how your leaves come out as identifiable to a silver maple. My 'juvenile' leaves looks fairly different. A lot closer to a field maple I believe until they mature and look like a silver maple.
I'm excited to see this one progress parallel to mine.
Orion_metalhead
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Thank you!
I have two silver maples, both with definite silver maple leaves. There is definitely a lot of genetic diversity in the maple family.
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