Where can I find Bigleaf Maple Tree seeds?
yms1975
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BillMN-z-2-3-4
3 months agoI don't know why etsy of Canada would refuse you shipment.
They even list it in Canadian currency:
https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1133226925/100-count-bigleaf-maple-tree-seeds-acer
Acer macrophyllum native range:
yms1975
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Can I expose the flare of Maple tree in the future?
Comments (10)If I understood the timeline in your post, the tree was just planted. There would be no reason to wait. Fixing it now means less chance of failure later and means less time for roots to develop in the excess fill. Unless you had to remove a significant amount of roots, fixing the situation will be much less stressful on the tree than if it has to breath through an extra 4" to 6" of dirt! As you would anyway, be sure to maintain a careful check on soil moisture and water as needed. Girdling roots are most often caused by potbound root systems not being properly prepared (teased out, cut, etc) when planted. Sometimes small trees get potted up into larger containers without having their roots properly prepared, and girdling roots can be present even though they are not evident when the tree is planted. I don't see this situation (with the info given so far) as having a high potential for girdling roots. Planting a tree deeper will do absolutely nothing to stop surface roots. The tree grows surface roots in order to get air. The amount and degree of surface roots depend on things like the tree species, soil type, and soil moisture. If the tree is going to grow surface roots, it will do so no matter how deeply it's planted, unless it is killed first. What you said about a 2" deep root eventually growing to a circumference large enough to be above ground is correct. But, if the tree needs surface roots, it will grow them; burying existing roots won't stop the process. Sorry, but I don't understand what you were saying about the root flare growing in an upward direction....See Morecan i plant sugar maple seeds
Comments (1)I ask the same question, but didn't get an answer, so I did some checking, and I think the seeds need to be cool for a while. My tree is just loaded with them this year, so I have decided to plant some outside and leave them through the winter and also store some of the seeds in the frig. until close to spring and try planting them. None have started coming off the tree yet, so they might need to dry on there for a while. I also read where you can start a tree from a branch. Marcella...See MoreBigleaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum) in Alaska?
Comments (10)Ron, I'm sorry your obsession with the faulty 1990 USDA zone map seems to impede your ability to make educated guesses about plant performance based on more specific climatic data available from the Western Regional Climate Center and other sources. Let's start with Leavenworth's all time low: -36F. Then consider that these maples occur at much higher altitudes (another factor that cannot possibly be considered by the map, since all the weather stations in that area are in the valleys), up to at least 4,000', so they can probably live through colder temperatures than what Leavenworth experiences. And then let's not forget that some plants have more vestigal cold hardiness than they need to survive where they are native, from a time when our climate was much colder. Considering all those factors together, I think it's a safe bet that bigleaf maples from central Washington can survive most, if not all winters in zone 5, and may be growable in parts of zone 4 as well....See MoreBigleaf Maples Dying!?
Comments (23)Any questions anyone has about Sudden Oak Death, you can direct to me. That's what I do for 40 hours a week, is look for it. SOD has not been found in the wild in Washington. It has never yet been seen on bigleaf maple in WA, or on any of our native plants, whether in the wild, in landscapes, or in nurseries. The probability of your having it on your mature trees in your yard is essentially zero. Newly planted rhodies that the nursery brought in from CA or OR is a different story, but even there the chances are very slim. There is a saying in medical diagnostics which applies here. When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras. SOD would be even rarer than a zebra here. More like an okapi or something. I've heard of arborists telling their clients that their trees are dying of SOD but that's just plain irresponsible. Might as well say your tree has west nile virus. SOD cannot be diagnosed in the field. I've been doing this for over a year and I can't say when I've found it. Only the plant pathology lab can make a definitive diagnosis, and the lab has to be licensed by the USDA to do the work. I think you can take leaf or twig samples in a sealed plastic baggie to the Master Gardeners and they'll send it on to WSU but I'm not sure about that. In any case, SOD kills tanoaks and live oaks but that's about it. It has not been found on garry oaks. It can sicken and slowly kill rhodies. Most all other hosts simply get an icky leaf or twig blight that does not kill the plant. That includes bigleaf maples and doug firs. Frankly, for our native plants, it's just another leaf blight, and a very minor one at that. I see no cause for panic. For more info on SOD than you can shake a stick at, see the link below. Bear in mind that their focus is California, where the tanoaks and live oaks are dying. The host list is quite long, but many of those plants have only been found positive for SOD once - in a CA forest surrounded by dying oaks, for instance, or in a European nursery. For instance, the only time doug fir has come up positive is in CA xmas tree farms surrounded by dying oaks. Here, it's basically a very rare disease of nursery rhodies, kalmias, and camellias. It would be like someone here getting malaria - not exactly a likely occurrence! Every tree has a limited life span. 200 year old bigleaf maples are approaching the upper limit of their life span. All trees die and fall eventually. The symptoms described by Sarabera sound like verticillium wilt to me, for which there is no cure. You can prune out killed branches and see if the rest of the tree can shake it off. Verticillium likes soil that alternates between very wet and very dry, just like we get here! Building and paving definitely affect water movement in and under the soil, and affect how much water tree roots get and when - usually by speeding up the flow so more water goes by in winter and less in summer. Disturbed soil holds less water than undisturbed soil too so trees dry out faster. We got plenty of rain this winter and the soil was definitely filled with as much water as it can hold, and the underground aquifers too. Probably not strictly drought stress but just a combination of extreme age, stress from urbanization, and verticillium taking advantage of wet/dry cycles. And, it's normal for them to start going into fall color and leaf drop in late summer when stressed. You want an ISA certified arborist. Here is a link that might be useful: California Oak Mortality Task Force...See More
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