Anyone have a sugar maple tree?
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Sugar maples as street trees and crababbles in alkaline soil?
Comments (4)Personally, I would think the Fall Fiesta would prefer the acid, but if everything else is OK, then a PH that is a little high would be OK depending on just how alkaline. 7.1-7.2 would probable be ALLOT better than 7.5 or higher. Might need some supplemental nutrients though (i.e. iron). If you are willing to do an annual spread of elemental sulfur, then that would help the PH, but adding lots and lots of leaf litter would add acid as well as they decomposed. That is exactly how allot of soils end up being acidic in the first place. On a positive note, I LOVE our Fall Fiesta Sugar Maple. It was only planted last fall, but still gave us to 12-18 inches of growth this spring (sometimes a full inch a day on night that were very mild), filled out allot, and is doing wonderfully. They grow faster than the standard of the species, with the patent application stating the original tree at 10 years old, was either 20 or 25 feet tall (can't remember which off the top of my head). I have also seen trees of locally of Fall Fiesta by checking the growth marking on limbs, grew as much as three feet some years. Shantung probable grows faster, and is certainly more tolerant than any sugar maple that I know of, but you already have the sugar maples, so if you can make it work, they are great trees in and of themselves. Otherwise find them a new home and look for something tougher like the Shantung. JMHO...See MoreSugar maple tree leaves dying
Comments (4)TJ, This is the only one in the area, there are many silver maples in the neighborhood that are unaffected. I do not use lawn service. David Tornado, After coming out in the spring, a couple of branches turned yellow and lost their leaves and then the entire tree turned slightly yellow and about half of the leaves dropped. Did not loose the remaining leaves but all leaves stayed on the tree and turned brown. Leaves after several weeks are still on the tree but dried brown. David...See MoreMy poor sugar maple trees time to get the chainsaw
Comments (14)Right^. But in doing so, many weakly-attached "suckers"-really just new branches-are formed wherever the cuts were made. I say weakly-attached, but even there, in time, enough new layers of growth are laid up and around these that they too eventually become more sound. The problem is-and here I go with the technical stuff again-silver maple is a poor compartmentalizer, which as a practical matter means that wherever a stub cut is made, decay is very likely to get started. So, if it seems like I'm telling both sides of the story, it's because I am. As beng said, silvers can and do usually just keep right on growing following such treatment, but at the same time, there is at the least, a temporary stage where there may be some poorly-attached branches, and these branches or suckers-same thing really-will grow very rapidly and in a crowded fashion. If it were mine, and I wanted to retain these trees in the landscape, I would do so but keep an eye on the structural aspects, for safety reasons. No tree has a warranty that it or a part of it won't fail, but the worst of powerline-clearance practice does lead to many more such events. +oM...See MoreDoes anyone have an 'Autumnfest' Sugar Maple?
Comments (5)If a new one from Schmidt there won't be much, if any general experience with it yet. Their claims for it will probably still be based entirely on Willamette Valley conditions. Sugar maple tree named `JFS-KW8` BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION During the fall of 2000, I searched for improved varieties of sugar maple, Acer saccharum. I examined several thousand seedling trees of Acer saccharum growing in rows at a nursery in Boring, Oreg. I found a number of seedling trees that differed from typical seedlings. One tree, which was three years old at the time, particularly caught my attention. My attention was drawn to this tree because it was taller and stronger growing than any other seedling in the field and also displayed unusually bright red fall color. I tagged it and transplanted it during the winter into a testing block for further evaluation. I evaluated this tree every year thereafter and determined that it was superior to typical seedlings in several features. In order to test this tree under nursery growing conditions, my new tree was test propagated by T-budding onto Acer saccharum rootstock in small plots of 10 trees in 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2006. This asexual propagation in Boring, Oreg. by budding on Acer saccharum rootstock has shown that the characteristics of my new tree are firmly fixed in successive generations. I evaluated each plot of these test trees for three years in the nursery and then discarded all but 15 which I re-planted in 2008 and 2009. Testing, evaluation, and comparison with seedlings of the species as well as with existing commercial varieties of Acer saccharum has convinced me that my new tree has superior growth and appearance characteristics for landscape use.... Compared to `Bailsta`, my new tree is taller, with one year trees of `JFS-KW8` averaging 231 cm vs. 218 cm for `Bailsta`. In addition, the sheen of the upper leaf surface of `JFS-KW8`is slightly satiny while that of `Bailsta` is slightly glossy to glossy. Fall leaf color of `Bailsta` typically has a range of colors of yellow, orange and red. Compared to `Green Mountain`, the slightly satiny upper leaf surface of `JFS-KW8` is easily distinguished from the dull leathery leaf surface of `Green Mountain`. In addition, 2 year old `Green Mountain` trees have wide branch crotch angles (50.degree.-80.degree.) while `JFS-KW8` has moderate branch crotch angles that are typically 40.degree.-50.degree.. Branch orientation of 2 year trees of `Green Mountain` is wider (45.degree.-60.degree. measured 30 cm from trunk) while that of `JFS-KW8` in narrower and more upsweeping (typically 30.degree.-40.degree. measured 30 cm from trunk). Comparison to the species: My new variety is straighter, taller, more upright, and moderately narrower in form than the species. The 13 year old original tree is best described as narrowly oval to oval in shape, while typical trees of the species are broadly oval to round at the same age. Measurement of propagated one and two year old trees of my new variety and seedlings of the species confirm this form difference. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=PP22034.PN.&OS=PN/PP22034&RS=PN/PP22034...See Moreken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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