Acer Negundo (Boxelder Maple) #52

[Orion_metalhead]

Another boxelder maple i dug and wired and put in a pot. Going for something more dramatic with this compared to my other boxelder. I have another one in the ground to dig up in a few years also. I think three of these are enough.

 

[butlern]

Not to hijack, but see so few of these. I like it.

I visited a friends garden yesterday and she has a really interesting boxelder she been working on. Really great base, and starting to get ramification on what is typically really coarse growth.

Good luck with yours!

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Internodes look pretty tight on that one. Really nice! I think they are a fun species so far. Petiole length is a concern initially, but after a little ramification, they seem to shorten.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Pruned today.

Before:


After:

 

[giventofly]

Expecting to see some more updates on this

 

[Orion_metalhead]

If it lives, I expect to give them!

Check out my other Boxelder in the mean-time:

Acer Negundo (Boxelder Maple) #1

This is my first tree. A quick progression in photos with some minor descriptions. Not much to say about the tree at this point. It is an Acer Negundo or Boxelder Maple. I collected it last year from the front garden. I thought it was a red maple, but then I got the three-leaflets develop and...

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[Tieball]

Not to hijack, but see so few of these. I like it.

View attachment 462758I visited a friends garden yesterday and she has a really interesting boxelder she been working on. Really great base, and starting to get ramification on what is typically really coarse growth.

Good luck with yours!

Pass along a comment of a spectacularly aged tree. Really well done!

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Not to hijack, but see so few of these. I like it.

View attachment 462758I visited a friends garden yesterday and she has a really interesting boxelder she been working on. Really great base, and starting to get ramification on what is typically really coarse growth.

Good luck with yours!

Can you post an updated photo? Can your friend send what it looks now lare spring?

 

[butlern]

Here's a shot from a page in our local newsletter... but I have not seen the tree in person this spring. But short internodes still appear to be holding.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

I believe I underfertilized this because leaf color is a bit off. Still grew well. I fertilized with some miracle grow.



You can see the leaf color next to my alder which is always the right color green due to its nitrogen fixing ability:

 

[Orion_metalhead]

End of year. Added .11" to the thickness. Needs a repot next spring - it's been two years. Will repot and heavily fertilize.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Repotted. Set on bench for grow out this year. Ill probably do a single prune in June. Roots looked pretty good.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

End of year. Did ok. I think next year it will do well due to a late fertilization and recovery from repotting.



Looks like an insect mark on the tip of this branch...

 

[just.wing.it]

Is that some kind of insect eggs?

 

[Orion_metalhead]

I tried scraping them off but they were super hard. Idk.. they are exactly at 90deg angles to each other on the little branch.

 

[Hartinez]

I tried scraping them off but they were super hard. Idk.. they are exactly at 90deg angles to each other on the little branch.

I think it’s more insect eggs! You had another post last fall with similar, but larger eggs. Willing to beg these are from a similar creature. They probably eat the bugs you don’t want. Not certain but I bet.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Last year.had katydid eggs on a juniper. Youre right. These are waaaay different.