Recent content by TerryBryan

Thanks, All my trees will be in a green house this winter with a heater to help maintain the proper temperature. It's definitely having drainage issues. Since I removed the moss, I can now see that it's not draining well at all when I watered last night. I propped it up on each side for a few...

Hi Judy, Until a few days ago, I had a nice moss layer growing on the tree to help retain moisture. I removed it to see what was going on with the soil. This photo was taken almost 24 hours after watering the day before. The soil is still very wet and if I push down on the darker root ball...

We couldn't, the root ball was so dense that we would have destroyed most of the roots. The soil we lined the bottom of the pot and back filled with drains very well. The original soil is very wet and clay like. I'll take better photos tonight.

Hi Peter, The tree did struggle to come out of dormancy in the spring. I'm leaning towards something wrong with the root system like you mentioned either damage from the winter or root rot that has started. Should I try and separate it from the pot and take a look? I did start to hold it to one...

Thanks Judy, I'm familiar with the Dyna-Grow line and might have to try that out. I did a spider mite check a few weeks ago and didn't see anything. PeteGreg, you could be on to something with the roots damaged by cold. We had a true temp of -20 below zero for a week. Although the tree was in an...

It seems to be happening in different spots. The picture of the buds that I showed will just sit there and maybe 1 or 2 will leaf out, but the others will sit there and eventually turn more brown, dry out and fall off when I touch them. I will try and take more detailed photos tonight showing a...

Also, prior to the re-pot, it was in a training pot for quite a while. Since the re-pot was done when the buds were pushing, could this be a reaction to the re-pot? Although it did very well after that summer. We also got very cold this winter, down to -20 and it was in an attached garage for...

Thank you everyone for your help. I should of also added that due to leaf burn last summer I now have the tree under a 40% shade cloth. It started to get some leaf burn again, so I shaded it. All of this was happening prior to the shade cloth. When it was re-potted in Spring of 2017, the main...

I have a European hornbeam that was repotted last spring 2017. The tree was very healthy and had three flushes of growth. In the fall of 2017, all the new buds set and everything looked great. When spring 2018 came, the tree struggled to get started and had an initial growth spurt. As the growth...