Winter dieback on weeping ryusen...advice needed

9 years ago

We replaced our weeping ryusen. I had assumed it was dead above the graft and the new growth was some other maple. But upon close inspection...I believe the area where the dead and live met on the trunk was just that. Where I had originally thought it the graft. Brought home a healthy weeping ryusen to replace it in the yard...to notice it has similar leaves...which made me look closer to notice the graft is actually close to the soil...not where I had thought.

Now I contemplate what to do with this thing. Do I chop the dead off...and stake the branches and allow it to grow taller? Or...let it be staked to the dead trunk? Or...chop the dead off and just allow it to become ground cover.

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cadillactaste
Original Author
9 years ago
Here you can see the graft at the soil...
cadillactaste
Original Author
9 years ago
Assuming chopping and using cut paste would be best route...even if I just let this sprawl across the lawn as ground cover.
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cadillactaste
Original Author
9 years ago

Well...I potted it up last spring left it to it's own devises and shown it pulled through. Wintered in my cold greenhouse for bonsai...and now and just going to play around with it. I've a new branch wired up as a new leader for some height. But...plan on creating a slanted whimsical tree from it. Undecided if it will make it back to the yard or remain in a pot. (For bonsai related material) If left in a pot I plan on sticking it on a huge boulder letting it cascade over the side of the pot and down below. Think that might look rather nice. Or sit it on my stone wall...and let it cascade down below...time will tell. But not a total loss...replacement in the yard received winter protection...and seems to have wintered well.