HELP! Weeping Cherry Tree Dying...What Can I Do?
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Can I bonsai a weeping cherry tree?
Comments (8)Hi, You have a good plane in mind it seems. But I will say this. A weeping cherry is usually a grafted tree. I bet (without seeing the tree) it has a tall straight trunk with the weeping branches at the top. Am I correct? If this is true, you will see a bulge in the trunk directly under the weeping branches with a diagonal line or scar. This part is a graft. The weeping branches were grown onto a straight cherry trunk. If you cut this part off so that the tree is smaller, it will no longer be a weeping cherry. I am sorry but this tree was created for the landscape and not a bonsai container. But here is good news. If you still want to bonsai this tree I would cut off the graft and leave a two foot trunk. Water it a lot and it will back-bud on the trunk. After a year or so the tree will have great branches to wire. It should be a very strong tree because the root stock for grafted weeping cherries needs to be very hardy to keep good vigor. After this has been done and branches have grown, you can easily create a weeping cherry bonsai. It is your creativity at work that will create great bonsai. Wire the branches into a downward weeping habit. That is all. It should be a fun project for you. I wish you the best of luck. Gardener Guy...See Morecan i graft a fruit cherry tree to a wild cherry tree?
Comments (20)I have read that in this instance that people can do two grafts. The native variety being the most hardy and strongest rooting, then a short intermediary piece which can bridge between the native and fruiting varieties. Can anyone assist? Or know someone who can? I have cut down a large native cherry and would like to graft lapins and stella to the sprouts which are sure to come up this spring. "example taken from plum/almond stone fruit grafting" - " Also (and this is where the fun starts) most fruit trees in the Prunus genus are sometimes compatible with each other: almonds, apricots, nectarines, peaches, and plums all are compatible for grafting, but occasionally it's complicated. For example, some plum rootstock is not compatible with peaches or nectarines; and some almonds require an intermediate step before grafting onto some plum rootstocks."...See MoreWeeping cherry tree - two trees
Comments (6)Definitely a bad graft with the standard cherry suckering. This happens to a lot of ornamental fruit trees. You'll have to cut the white flowered trunk off at the collar (just past where it meets the main trunk). It sounds like both trunks are the same size? That means this problem started as soon as you planted it. A picture would help a lot. Make a CLEAN cut on an ANGLE just past the branch collar. It is probably too thick to use loppers, so purchase a decent pruning saw (Lowes, HD sell these), and make a starter cut at the bottom of the branch, angling up and in toward the tree, then do the rest of the cut from the top of the branch, angling toward the bottom cut (away from the tree). The cut is on an angle to shed water. You must do a cut on the bottom first so that when you cut from the top it doesn't pull down and rip the bark along the main trunk, which can kill the tree. Do this now or wait until next year and do it in early spring before the buds break. Do not wait much longer, because right now the cherry will use it's energy to heal the wound, but if you wait until May or later it will have used most of it's energy in flowering and growing new branches and will not heal quickly at all. The standard cherry will grow about 20 feet high. Depending on the rootstock, it may even bear fruit. Standard cherries are hardy trees, and it will definitely end up killing your weeping graft if you don't get rid of it soon. As for it looking odd, don't worry, in a few years the weeping tree will grow to the other side with proper pruning. Right now the other tree is preventing it from growing that direction. Once it is gone the other side will start to thrive. The sun exposure alone will help a lot. Don't expect too much this year though, since it will be focusing its energy on healing....See MoreWeeping Cherry Tree Problem - Can you help?
Comments (0)My weeiping cherry is being eatin by some sort of bug I think. It has these white things attached to the underside of the leaves and there are holes in the leaves. The tree tooks pretty bad right now. I don't know how to upload pictures to this site, this is my first time on here. Thanks for any help you can give me. I have attached a URL to where I have posted the pictures, hopefully it works. Here is a link that might be useful: Weeping Cherry...See Morefloral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
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