Collected Euonymus burning bush advice for big chop

[bast]

You should generally see growth in the spring on any tree you chop back hard in the spring. Although some people have seen collected trees wait till fall or the next spring from what I've read. Everything I've had that didn't push in the spring ended up dead sadly.

Yeah, that’s kind of why I was nervous about it. As a single-flush species, if it already chose its buds for the year and I chopped them all off, would it sprout new ones this year, and if not would it live until the next year to do so then? It was a small enough concern after you all reassured me that it would be ok though.

 

[The Barber]

Yeah, that’s kind of why I was nervous about it. As a single-flush species, if it already chose its buds for the year and I chopped them all off, would it sprout new ones this year, and if not would it live until the next year to do so then? It was a small enough concern after you all reassured me that it would be ok though.

I would think that it hasn't spent it's energy on foliage yet and should form buds just fine

 

[bast]

an update on this, a bit bleak though… i think it’s not going to make it. It grew several shoots with big healthy leaves, from four of the five trunks, and i expected them to be soaking up sun all summer and had been wondering if i should wire them or something. But then apparently the earwigs found it, and basically ate all the leaves within a week. And since it is a single-flush species, it was already done growing leaves for the year. A couple of the new shoots are still green, but I’m not holding out any hope…

 

[The Barber]

I've had a beech defoliate due to missing it during a watering and it pushed new leaves, and they are single flush. Keep watering it, and get some pesticide on it, and it may pull through

 

[leatherback]

an update on this, a bit bleak though… i think it’s not going to make it. It grew several shoots with big healthy leaves, from four of the five trunks, and i expected them to be soaking up sun all summer and had been wondering if i should wire them or something. But then apparently the earwigs found it, and basically ate all the leaves within a week. And since it is a single-flush species, it was already done growing leaves for the year. A couple of the new shoots are still green, but I’m not holding out any hope…

Odd.

This whole single-flush species.. I hear it a lot, but never believed it. The burning bush you have the E Alatus I believe. Planted in the ground they push multiple times a year. In a pot they seem reluctant. Means, we only need to figure out what makes them hesitate in a pot.

Just keep it as happy as you can and fingers crossed for spring.

 

[bast]

We'll see. It does look like it's in pretty bad shape. I probably should have posted on here as soon as I saw something wrong. I just thought it was the occasional leaf bites I see around, but only after I looked at it at nighttime did I see the earwigs all over it. I wish I got a photo of them but I was too busy assaulting them with neem oil I guess.

Here's a pic from June 22 where you can see the damage up to this point; this was when I really started paying attention and dousing it with neem oil spray. The branch tips have been chewed up as well as the leaves.




And then a couple weeks later (a more incidental photo so the quality is not great):


I don't have a more recent photo, but I can take one and post soon. It's lost all leaves, and I see less and less green in the branches. I've noticed that on this species the current year's new branches have stripes along their length, green and brown. The green in that seems to fade to reddish brown as the branch dies, and I am definitely seeing that happening all over it.

I did not repot this tree this year or look at its roots. I also left that silver maple volunteer in the box from last year, since it had a weird curly base naturally, and is probably not doing much harm, although maybe I should question it as a suspect for possible arborcide since it's still alive...

 

[bast]

There is still one piece of this bush still alive. One of the air layers I cut off in spring seems to be surviving, or at least half of it. I'm guessing this based on the green color, but it's pretty well contrasted against the red parts. The leaves got chewed off on this one actually a couple months ago too, but it seems alright with that, and I guess it's photosynthesizing through the green branches.


It wasn't an air layer for any special aspect that would make it good for bonsai, it was just a branch I eventually planned on cutting off so I figured I'd practice air layering and maybe avoid the waste. Not sure what to plan for it in the future. Maybe it's not worth a plan really; I'd just like to keep it alive at this point.