Species Study - Acer Saccharum/Acer Saccharinum

[MHBonsai]

Nice tree glad to see it budding . Curious what kind of growing conditions did you find it in . Always interested in info . Even for a large tree the bark looks rougher than normal . Very interested in the low amount of roots at collection if it survives nice tree

It was growing in dappled shade under some massive oaks. Roots are really radial with some nice low flare because my soil is very shallow, only about 10” soil over limestone in this location. The bark is my favorite part! It’s pretty craggy for a maple. I counted rings at the chop, I think the tree is 28-30 years old.

 

[MHBonsai]

That’s the spot, it’s one of those close to the river

 

[Frozentreehugger]

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That’s the spot, it’s one of those close to the river

That’s the point of this thread to share info thanks. And ya I really like the bark on your tree .

 

[Cajunrider]

As collected a month ago. I did some severe root prune on the tree.
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So many water sprouts with big leaves from the chop at the base. It looks like a bush now.

 

[Frozentreehugger]

Never discussed in the rush to down play there lack of fall colour . Is the very nice colour of the young leaves of silver

 

[Eckhoffw]

Never discussed in the rush to down play there lack of fall colour . Is the very nice colour of the young leaves of silver

Yes! Very cool color in the young leaves.
Mine are almost all green now.

 

[TrevorLarsen]

Mine are also looking great.
The parent tree has amazing bark and nebari

 

[Kievnstavick]

I'm still waiting for mine to leaf out to re-verify my assumption of a hybrid. It's still alive and green with swollen buds, but it is sure taking its sweet time to do something.

I have freshly germinated seeds in the yard already sprouting their true leaves and a 1 year old sapling leafed out about 2 weeks ago.

 

[ERClover]

Update on my big boy I pulled out of the ground. Did my best to ensure the extremely limited roots always had moisture around them. Got some great action over the last month and a half. Here we are today. Have not dug around to see what kind of rooting I’m getting but now that secondary buds are forming right off of the trunk after the initial branch buds that overwintered on the tree opened I’m thinking there’s been progress.

The overwinter buds opened but never really seemed too strong which was understandable. Those leaves were quick to wilt in heat and I just tried to manage them as best I could and by and large they’ve all made it through to this second flush and are looking stronger than ever. I moved this out to this location to soak in a little more sun over the next couple days and start to just dry out a bit more, let the wood box actually dry a bit from being constantly wet and start to get a better environment for new roots to thrive and not just survive. Will keep updating.

This is saccharum by the way.

 

[Bowhuntmuledeer]

Got another one out of the yard this spring that I wanted to fool around with in literati style. Really took off growing well. After I noticed it mid summer last year it had very few leaves and didn’t do any growth at all. Again, these are great trees for me to practice on. I’m not out anything and I can get a feel for all the processes, plus I feel like you can keep em alive unless you are really trying to kill em (as long as they have water). I didn’t add a lot of bend to it, wood is pretty stiff and I did break it up top, we’ll see if it heals up or if I lose some up there. Will let it recover in a a spot shaded from most of the daytime sun for a few weeks. If it’s growing well later this summer I’ll se about leaf reduction maybe
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[MHBonsai]

My big collected sugar maple is doing its best. Several low buds pushing hard and the top bud finally is pushing growth. I hope it holds and the leaves fully open to start driving more bud growth. Not out of the woods yet.