Any advice to help my maple?

[jtupper]

My maple has some burned looking older leaves. And most new growth looks twisted and deformed?

It's still in the pot I got it from the nursery and I will report next spring hopefully.

Let me know if better photos needed. Thank you in advance.

 

[Rivian]

I grow a lot of Japanese maples, but I still dont have much useful advice for you.
The retarded growth tends to happen at this time of year on developing shoots. I dont have any maples in full shade, but my one maple in morning sun and all the others in full sun experience this.
I would have to try growing one in full shade to find out if its caused by solar radiation or just a fungus or virus in the air.
Burnt looking older leaves, in particular the tips, is likely insufficient water transport to the leaves. Think sun + dry winds, or lack of watering

 

[yenling83]

Bjorn of Eisei-En Bonsai has some fantastic species guides. Here's the one for Japanese Maples, highly recommend these as a great starting point.

Care and maintenance guide for native Japanese Maple bonsai (Acer) – Eisei-en

www.bjornbjorholm.com

You'll want to make sure it's shaded, esp when temps are hot. Good luck with it!

 

[queenofsheba52]

Hi @jtupper , glad you found this fantastic site! I have a two small Japanese maples, nothing worthy of exhibition but pleasing to me. I keep them in complete shade all summer and they seem to love it. I hope you enjoy your maples.

 

[Shibui]

Burnt leaves on Japanese maples is very common. Extra shade and making sure they never dry out completely will help but sometimes even experienced growers get some leaf scorch.
Burnt leaves can be left on the tree to help feed it or we can cut the leaf stem and remove them. The tree will grow more leaves to replace any you remove. Personally I put up with a few part burnt leaves because it takes more energy to make new leaves and sometimes weaker trees just don't have enough.
There's a few things that can cause deformed leaves in maples. Tiny bugs sucking the emerging leaves do this and a few fungal infections produce similar leaves. In my experience both happen more early in spring and disappear later in the season so subsequent leaves are OK. Again, if the tree is healthy and fell fed the deformed leaves can be removed and new ones will grow but better to put up with it if the tree is not super healthy.

 

[jtupper]

Thank you all for the great advice. I think I was mostly looking for reassurance I wasn't about to kill this little one.
Hope everyone is having a happy fourth if you're in the USA. If you're not hope you have a great day as well.

Many thanks again! This forum is simply one of the most valuable resources in the hobby. Cheers!