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Posted by Shelly029 Melb. AUST (My Page) on Tue, Mar 29, 05 at 23:09
| I have 2 weeping cheery trees both doing strange things...they are both 5ft high and both 3 years old....
The white flowering one, has lots of curled up shrunken leaves on the new growth. I have looked for insects but can't see any. I didn't get many flowers last year.
The pink flowering one has 2 stems growing straight up in the air (stemming from well above the graft line) and not weeping at all, should they be cut off? I have kept them in the hope they would bend over once they got too heavy but it hasn't worked. Is it from the root stock it was grafted onto?
AND I have 5 baby plants growing underneath it. Are these viable plants? Will they need planted onto a graft? Being that no growth has been allowed to grow on the main trunk, what are the chances this is from the root stock?
Thanks Everyone
Shelly
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RE: Weeping Cheery Tree
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Hi Shelly,
It sounds like your tree has had an attack of cherry slug. They will have left the tree by now, but next season (before Christmas) keep a look out for the little blighters. There are sprays that will do the job. They look like small black slugs.
Cheers Dee. |
RE: Weeping Cheery Tree
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| My weeping cherry trees seem to curl up the leaves where I live due to the heat but I can't really say whether heat is your problem or not.No experience with "cherry slug" but "deejaus" response may also be a cause of leaf curl.As to the two stems growing straight up, cut them off.Grafts sometimes send out shoots that revert to the type of growth of the original tree and if not cut off can overtake the growth of the graft.The "baby plants" appear to be sucker growth from roots growing near the surface.They will most likely have the same type of growth of the understock.If these are grown they will need to be grafted with weeping cherry grafts otherwise they will grow the same as whatever understock was used for the original graft.Hope this info helps, C.N. |
RE: Weeping Cheery Tree
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need help please just moved in this house and in the front
lawn we found a cherry tree i dont know anything about it
but to me looks like is dead it has a few branches no leaf and im wondering is it dead? can someone please tell me if can be saved thanks regards josie |
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