My Bloodgood still has most leaves (but no real red leaves and my Emperor 1 looks same). Also my Garnet Maple is an incredible scarlet red nearby one of the Coral Barks and my ShiShiGashira Lion’s Head has just started to get a few orange leaves on top. None are in full sun most get afternoon & morning filtered shade if not full shade (but all get some sun). In addition – have 2 Crimson Queens & Red Dragon that never really turned red this fall and leaves are brown and falling at least on top too. I also had trimmed some of the ends on one in August (looked wispy in a weird way) and now it has green leaves shooting out those branches – they are somewhat larger leaves so am also concerned with possibility of reversion?!! It is 68 degrees here today and we had a decent rain couple days ago – begonias and Sun Impatients are still blooming as no frost here yet.Īll of a sudden this week both of my Sango Coral Barks suddenly got noticeable brown curled leaves after having glorious yellow leaves for at least a month. ![]() Fertilizer with something organic like fish emulsion fertilizer, Millorganite, or another organic fertilizer. That’s what all plants, especially Japanese maples need.īut not all of us have good soil in our yards so what do we do. For years and years vegetation falls to the earth and rots and becomes topsoil. Really good topsoil is just that, organic matter. What a Japanese maple really needs is good rich soil that contains a significant amount of organic matter. What Should I Use to Fertilize My Japanese Maple? Most ornamental plants physically cannot grow fast enough to use that much nitrogen and the overload of nitrogen will kill them almost immediately. ![]() Nitrogen drives top growth, vegetative growth, on plants. A bag of 14-14-14 garden fertilizer contains 14% Nitrogen, 14% Phosphorous and 14% potassium.Īnd as soon as you apply it and it gets wet, bam! All 14% of that nitrogen is released immediately. ![]() Garden fertilizers are designed to be immediate release.
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