Please help with cherry blossom tree
otisredding24
11 years ago
Hi Everyone. This is my first post on these boards. I live in Orlando, Florida. I bought a cherry blossom tree in January. It was doing well and blossomed in February.
Just recently some of the leaves toward the top of the tree have started turning black around the edges. No yellow/brown color...just black around the edges and shriveling up but not falling off. It's mostly toward the top of the tree but some towards the middle/bottom and the tree is still growing taller and new branches mostly in the bottom and middle.
It could be a lack of water but we've gotten tons of rain lately with the tropic storm. When I was planting it I was told to mix half original soil with half planting soil so that's what I did. I recently read that you're supposed to refill with all original soil so that could be the problem.
This tree has a lot of sentimental value to me and I really want to try to save it if it is dying.
Anyone have any thoughts?
Thanks
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Comments (1)When is the birthday? If you want to give a cherry tree you have grown from seed you will need to start in the Autumn two or three of years ahead of the date. IF you can get the seed to grow and all goes well you will be able to offer a tree about two feet tall in about three years time. Also you will have no way of knowing what kind of cherry will grow from the seed unless you have chosen one of the wild species. You can't grow any of the ornamental flowering or good fruit bearing cherries from seed. In fact many of the double cherries don't even produce seed as the sexual parts of the flowers have mutated through hybridization into extra petals. These instructions tell you how to grow any of the wild species. Here is a link that might be useful: Growing cherry trees from seed....See MoreCherry Blossom Tree Seeds
Comments (5)Cherry tree seeds typically need 2-3 months cold stratification. First they need to be soaked for 24 hours, then carefully maintained at about 5ðC in your refrigerator for a lengthy period of time, then allowed to germinate in soil under warmer spring conditions. Some growers treat the seeds with a dilute solution of bleach for 10 minutes, so mildew will not later ruin the seed during stratification. A way around having to cold stratify seeds is to soak them in a 200ppm solution of gibberellic acid for 24 hours. This can be difficult to get right, because the seeds are very sensitive to exact concentrations of this plant hormone. Too little and the seed will not germinate, too much and the germinating seedling will sprout too fast and die. Prunus Yedoensis is generally considered "sterile", but it is not completely so. While normally propagated through grafting, it can produce a small number of seeds....See MoreWhat happened to my cherry tree blossoms?
Comments (10)About the only reasonable explanation that I can think of at the moment is that a "sucker", that is, a sprout from the base of the plant actually coming from the rootstock-these are grafted plants-grew up into the main body of the tree without your noticing, has matured enough to produce blossoms, and is now doing so, this variety of cherry not being the same as the top portion. Capiche? Really no other way that I can think of for this to happen. And it's not April first yet. Me or somebody else here can elaborate on that explanation if you wish. +oM...See MoreRainer cherry trees not blossoming
Comments (5)Just found the answer to my dilemma. I broke down and called a local orchard. "Dah" He said there was a late freeze, and that's what halted the blooms. He said sweet cherries are scarce out here this season. Thought you'd want to know....See More
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