Japanese Maples: Root Rot - Prevent Diagnose Cure!

Japanese Maples: Root Rot - Prevent Diagnose Cure!

In this video I will show you how to stop your Japanese maples having rotting roots, diagnose this problem and reverse the damage! A step by step guide that also includes an update from a tree I repotted last year.

Ideal for beginners or more experienced Japanese Maple growers, in these videos I will show what practical steps I take to keep my Acer trees healthy during a year of gardening!

I hope you will follow me in my adventures with these wonderful trees

This video will help you grow better trees and for those with more experience, who want to improve the autumn colour, health and general quality of their Maples. Colour can also be improved all year by giving trees the right amount of sun.

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[pamfox]

SUPER GREAT VIDEO 😊
APPRECIATE ALL YOUR KNOWLEDGE & HELPFUL INFORMATION 🙏
THANKS SO MUCH !!
I was so SURPRISED how small a pot U even have your LARGE MAPLES 🍁 R in 😮
I've learned that they MUST B potted in smaller pots in the beginning to help encourage football growth VS top growth which U SHARED is opposite on what some places sell & we THINK R great cultivars ...without knowing WHY 😮
REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR TIME ❤

[alexandredelage]

Thanks for the video, I just repotted 2 of my Japanese maples in smaller pots

[obsessedwithlawnoddswithgr]

awesome tips. spring is when root happens for me due to rain. so I switched to fabric pots and I have not lost any lately

[dariushKabir]

Thank you very much for all the explanations and advices, now with a bit of luck II try to save my Japanese Maples that I have had for more than 15 years but all the sudden this year her leaves have gone yellow and does look very happy at all!

[sadoldgit]

Little Princess really hates wet roots! Lost two of them this last winter/spring due to root rot after the six months of continuous rain down here in Cornwall! Bought a small Poly tunnel which will be housing my trees from now on so I can control watering!

[joelgriffitts]

I have tended to over-pot my new maples, and they really have been soggy and heavy. I've decided to remedy this not by down-potting, but by re-potting into a really well-draining soil: 3 parts pine bark, 1 part perlite, 1 part peat moss. Even when freshly watered they are now so much lighter and the water drains through quite readily. I'm optimistic I'll see some good summer rebound on those that have been sluggish to this point.

[chrisjames]

Wow! Having watched this video I now realize the number of mistakes I've made and I'm surprised that any of my maples have survived, but they have. I really have been over-watering. I'm going to buy a moisture meter right now!. Thank you for your advice. By the way, I recently purchased a Beni Maiko from an online nursery, and when it arrived it had powdery mildew. I experimented by mixing one part of the water from a bag of mozzarella to six parts water and spraying the plant daily to kill off the mildew. After five days the mildew is slowly disappearing. It must be the dilute lactic acid being unfavorable to the powdery mildew. So far so good.

[alandmkday]

Wow ! Great video buddy, I have this problem with one of mind, I've potted it on to a far to bigger pot.
I've down sized. But I think I will down size smaller too now, after watching this.
Yes we may lose one tree but if we investigate the problem we may have others .

[Acerdorer]

Thanks Carl! Yes, the damn moisture issue. For me in Hamburg it is pretty much the same and I always have to force me to water less and to weigh the pots before. In the future I will also add clay granulate or lava mulch to my soil to get more air inside the root system.

[manuginobili]

Hello Carl. During the winter when the maples are dormant and the rains come, can the same thing happen to the roots or are they more resistant? And if the pot is not suitable and is too large, would it be a solution to place the pot protected from the rain? I changed the size of the pots in the summer and I'm afraid that now in winter they might be bad. Thank you very much for sharing your videos, they are really very interesting.

[mattlohr]

Thanks for the video. May have prevented death to half my JM 2nd year trees!

[XraycatNL]

Really like your channel, very informative and showing what the reality is of it all, the good the bad and the ugly sort of speak.
I'm a new maple addict and your video's have been really helpfull :)
I live in the Netherlands so you know rain is always around the corner here, how long would you say soil could stay wet before I should start to worry?

[TheMrjoehughes]

This is definitely a problem for me living in uk like yourself… I’ve lost about 4 or 5 smaller trees this year in a very small time frame… the main reason for this is simply the rain we are having, I’d say I could have got away with not even watering my plants at all this last couple of months just to keep the soil at a nice moisture level…

Thinking about this now, if cover isn’t an option for the plants, planting in the ground or using some kind of moisture sucking substrate in the soil might be a good option

[robotech]

I wish I've seen this video a few hours ago...I had received three plants today (beni maiko/katsura/phoenix) and repoted them in bigger pots..I thought that I was helping them..

[asha]

So I had planted quite a few JMs in the ground in my backyard. I noticed that quite a few (6 or 7) have died..we’ve had a lot of rain and a few times, my yard was flooded for one day especially in the area where my JMs died. I have a deep suspicion that there is a phytophtora contamination. For now, I’ve stopped planting anymore JMs there..put some fungicide..and planted more water-tolerant trees (like crape myrtles).

[TSER]

Not tempted to put the Tamukeyama with root problems in sphagnum moss instead of soil?

[melamorales]

I have a one year old orangeola and it has dropped most of it's leaves and the tips of each branch seems to be dying. I cant find any information about what this might be. Do you have any ideas? Its potted, not in the ground. I'm thinking of repotting it.

[suesmith]

My acre is 4 years old and has been healthy until this year. It’s planted in the ground and obviously suffering from root rot due to wet early season … I live in Scotland. As it’s in the ground, is there anything I can do or is it a lost cause.

[jdan]

My Shaina was thriving early Spring, but has now lost all its leaves ☹️ any ideas?

[ronhall]

My new 5g Tattoo didn’t survive. Lost all its leaves and the limbs went black. I cut off what I could, and still have the tree. Hope is still free!! I’m very saddened as it was a pretty tree.