Chinese Elm Red Branches

[ConorDash]

This may be nothing but thought I might as well ask..

Some new shoots of my Chinese elm are forming red branches.. Everything else perfect normal but I'm quite previously the new branches were white, not red.
Anything to be worried about?



May be nothing but thought I'd ask.

 

[aml1014]

It's just normal new growth, it'll change color once the new growth hardens off.

Aaron

 

[ConorDash]

It's just normal new growth, it'll change color once the new growth hardens off.

Aaron

See I thought that but I've never seen red before!
I'm going to feel more and more like a fool, as replies say that same thing lol.

 

[aml1014]

See I thought that but I've never seen red before!
I'm going to feel more and more like a fool, as replies say that same thing lol.

Don't worry about it man. I used to see things on my trees that I was unsure was normal, I've since been lucky enough to get a job at a landscape nursery where I work 50 hours a week. With that much time around trees and shrubs, you really can watch how they grow, what they are doing year round, and that knowledge really comes in handy in bonsai.

Aaron

 

[LanceMac10]

It's just normal new growth, it'll change color once the new growth hardens off.

Aaron

This........

 

[ConorDash]

Don't worry about it man. I used to see things on my trees that I was unsure was normal, I've since been lucky enough to get a job at a landscape nursery where I work 50 hours a week. With that much time around trees and shrubs, you really can watch how they grow, what they are doing year round, and that knowledge really comes in handy in bonsai.

Aaron

That's pretty cool. If you enjoy that sort of thing (which I think we all do, hence why we are here) then that must be a pretty satisfying job . Thanks.

This........

Yeh I kinda regret asking this now lol, dislike looking silly..

 

[rockm]

I have to kind of laugh whenever I see "WOW THE NEW GROWTH ON MY TREE IS RED THAT'S GOT TO BE SOME KIND OF MAGIC"

Newly emerging red growth is typical of most deciduous hardwoods . The red coloring is variable and depends on sun exposure. It's a kind of "sunscreen" to protect new growth from sunburn. No, really, it is. The more sun, the redder the growth.

 

[ConorDash]

I have to kind of laugh whenever I see "WOW THE NEW GROWTH ON MY TREE IS RED THAT'S GOT TO BE SOME KIND OF MAGIC"

Newly emerging red growth is typical of most deciduous hardwoods . The red coloring is variable and depends on sun exposure. It's a kind of "sunscreen" to protect new growth from sunburn. No, really, it is. The more sun, the redder the growth.

Lol, I can only laugh at myself too, now I know... This topic can happily die now and no one else reply lol..

 

[rockm]

No need to be embarrassed. I had EXACTLY the same reaction when I first noticed it years ago. It's one of those subtle things in nature that you never really see, until you're READY to see it. Another one of those things that crops up as you get into bonsai is rubber necking on the freeway looking at the base of every tree in the median to see what kind of bonsai it would make. Expect that soon...

Bonsai makes you look at the world a bit differently.

 

[AlainK]

Some new shoots of my Chinese elm are forming red branches..

Well, I think that it's a sign from heaven that you Usonians are soon to have to be best friends with the commies from North Korea. I'm afraid that the 1% have already made a deal to ensure that all new shoots are red.

Better get used to it...

 

[vaibatron]

Well, I think that it's a sign from heaven that you Usonians are soon to have to be best friends with the commies from North Korea. I'm afraid that the 1% have already made a deal to ensure that all new shoots are red.

Better get used to it...

Did I miss something?

 

[vaibatron]

Maybe I need the @sorce to decipher that post lol

 

[sorce]

Maybe I need the @sorce to decipher that post lol

Don't ask me!

A lot of both those Frenchie Alains stuff goes right over my head!

Sorce