Maple trees are no maintenance once they are established. Offer plenty of water when planting in summer to combat stress from heat and acclimation. Areas with mild summers can plant in summer.
They can also be planted in winter if the ground is digable. Plant maple trees in spring and fall for best results. Broken, dead, or diseased branches should be removed when you notice them. However fall and winter pruning are fine for any minor pruning that is required. This is ideal if you have to perform any heavy pruning. If you want to avoid dripping sap prune your maple tree in late spring or summer. The fast growing silver maple tends to have the shortest lifespan of the shade maples, averaging about 100 years. Red maples average around 130 years, but can survive up to 300 years. Sugar maples tend to have the longest lifespan, living 300 to 400 years. Maple trees tend to have fairly long lifespans. While larger varieties can grow as much as a foot or even 2 feet in a single year when they are younger, they may only grow an inch or 2 in height per year when they are older. Faster growing varieties like silver maple, autumn blaze maple, and October glory maple can grow 3 to 5 feet in a single growing season. Most maple trees can grow about 2 feet per year. Many maple species are native to Asia, but maples are also found in North America, Europe, and Northern Africa. To be extra kind, avoid pruning during the tree’s low-energy times: just as leaves emerge in the spring or when leaves are dropping in the fall (just two weeks in each case).Several maples are native to the United States, but this large group of trees grows all over the world. If your maple is in poor health, make minimal cuts or limit yourself to deadwood removal. While the average tree can handle light pruning, all cuts wound a plant.
JAPANESE MAPLE TREE SERIES
This is how the tree becomes layered, like a series of fans. If a lateral branch from any of these scaffolds grows downward, crossing into the layer below, it should be removed or cut back to a side branch facing up and out. Most single-stemmed plants have a series of scaffold branches that radiate in a roughly spiral fashion up the trunk. The trick to making Japanese maples look great is to separate the branches into overlapping layers that don’t touch each other. That might cause decay to coalesce inside the trunk. Never make one cut directly above another or opposite another limb being pruned off in the same year. If you are going to “limb up” your tree by pruning the lowest branches, avoid stress to the plant by removing only a few at a time, not many at once. Removing too much of the foliage will starve the tree of nutrients. Each branch is fed by its leaves through photosynthesis. In addition, don’t remove more than a quarter of the foliage of any given branch. To avoid causing stress or stimulating unsightly growth, never remove more than one-fifth of a Japanese maple’s crown you should also not prune a branch that is more than half the diameter of the parent stem. Removing foliage will expose the tree’s thin, previously shaded bark to the light, inviting sunscald.
JAPANESE MAPLE TREE FULL
I avoid pruning when the temperature is 80☏ or higher, especially when the plant is located in full sun. Summer pruning also stimulates less plant growth than winter pruning, so you can get away with a little more and the tree will stay thinned out longer. In summer, however, you can judge the right amount of thinning needed to see the tree’s bones. With the leaves out of the way in winter, it is easy to see the branch structure and, in turn, make the right cuts. With that said, these maples are most easily pruned in winter or summer. If you prune selectively, almost anytime is the right time to prune a Japanese maple. The old gardener’s adage is “Prune when the shears are sharp”-and in general this is true.
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