Help! Health Check - Texas Cedar Elm

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I live in North Texas and have collected some Cedar Elms from my yard and nearby. Last year one of my biggest Elms stopped growing and started experiencing some brown tips on leaves and began dropping leaves long before fall (like in august I think?)

Fast forward to spring and to my surprise the tree made it and started shooting tons of new growth like nothing had happened. Now in the middle of June and growth has stopped again with lots of leaf issues, I believe. Ive been spraying 3-1 Bayern Once in April and once in May to help.

We have had a very wet June/May and I have not repotted them since collection last year.

Please Help!

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How was it potted up? Have you left a lot of original soil on and potted it into more free draining soil around it? If so water might not permeate into the core of the roots enough regardless of the wet weather.

Another issue may be overfertilising, if you have used some on it already.
 
I live in North Texas and have collected some Cedar Elms from my yard and nearby. Last year one of my biggest Elms stopped growing and started experiencing some brown tips on leaves and began dropping leaves long before fall (like in august I think?)

Fast forward to spring and to my surprise the tree made it and started shooting tons of new growth like nothing had happened. Now in the middle of June and growth has stopped again with lots of leaf issues, I believe. Ive been spraying 3-1 Bayern Once in April and once in May to help.

We have had a very wet June/May and I have not repotted them since collection last year.

Please Help!

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Is there original field soil on the roots? If so, could be too wet. FWIW, bare rooting cedar elms at collection is the best way to go.
 
How was it potted up? Have you left a lot of original soil on and potted it into more free draining soil around it? If so water might not permeate into the core of the roots enough regardless of the wet weather.

Another issue may be overfertilising, if you have used some on it already.
Its Potted up in a basic black gallon nursery pot, with some recycled nursery (pine bark based) soil mixed with some perlite/pumice. I do notice that the Soil drys out way faster than any of my other trees.

I have been fertilizing with miracle gro about once a week, along with some so release fertilizer pellets.
 
Is there original field soil on the roots? If so, could be too wet. FWIW, bare rooting cedar elms at collection is the best way to go.
Ill be honest I cant perfectly remember if I bare rooted it, but I think there might be some of the original soil, which in my area is more like a clay than actual dirt.
 
Ill be honest I cant perfectly remember if I bare rooted it, but I think there might be some of the original soil, which in my area is more like a clay than actual dirt.
Might be part of the issue if there's clay in the container particularly if it's been rainy.
 
Ill be honest I cant perfectly remember if I bare rooted it, but I think there might be some of the original soil, which in my area is more like a clay than actual dirt.
How is your elm doing? I killed one by root rot by keeping it too wet in the heat of summer.
 
Its still alive (scratch test). Only leaves still on it are on the lower branches (2nd photo above) The rest all dried up, but the main trunk up top is still green.

Cedar Elms are tough AF
 
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