That looks normal to me.
You shouldn't be fertilizing with fast acting chemical fertilizers untill the leaves harden off. Maybe around late March.
You shouldn't be fertilizing with fast acting chemical fertilizers untill the leaves harden off. Maybe around late March.
While fertilizing before the leaves 'harden' does no real harm to the tree itself. It does promote the leaves to grow larger (which can rune a leaf size reduction) as well as promote new growth to have longer internodes. Mainly and especially with fertilizers containing Nitrogen.
Just curious -- are you keeping this indoors?
my tridents are also just leafing out (and initially appear wilted until the leaves harden off).
how long have you had the light set-up running?
Very nice setup indeed! I think I might try to build something similar while all my trees are outside for the growing season.
I only asked because trident maples are decisuous and need to be outside for the winter. Did you just bring the tree inside early? I guess I should also ask where you live.
Trident maples need to be outdoors all the time. They will not prosper indoors and will probably eventually die.