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| I have an unplanted Diabolo ninebark that was neglected for a week and of course, it completely dried out. It was purchased for a rural property of mine and I thought it would be safe until I came back the following weekend to plant it since it was raining that week-Ha! Most of the leaves seemed dead but after bringing it home and repotting it in a bigger pot and babying it for a week, maybe 10% of the leaves still look good. My question is....should I leave it as is or should I cut all the branches back? My plan is to baby it until fall where I will try again and get it planted in its permanent spot in the country. It looks awful now but my goal is to get it to look good in the future. Since it is not in its permanent spot, I don't have a cosmetic issue with how it looks now.
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 9, 11 at 9:39
| i would leave it be for summer.. before deciding what parts are dead ... i have had late freezes total denude plants.. to have them reflush as well as mid summer hailstorms to the same ... an otherwise healthy plant.. can releaf .. the issue is how damaged the roots were in their ability to pump water ... and we will never really know about all that ... trees and shrubs.. do not like a dripping wet potting media .... so let the media NEAR-dry a bit in between waterings.. do not love it to death by drowning it ... insert finger into media to keep track of its moisture ... ken |
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| Thanks, Ken. I repotted it because the soil seemed awfully dense...or it was rootbound...I thought I'd give it more room to send out new roots. Okay, I'll stop babying it and let it recover (which I think it will). I was surprised at its condition because the unplanted dogwood that it was right next to it (same size 2 gallon pot) was completely fine! Go figure on that one. And yes about what happens to trees in the winter. I planted a 6 foot parrotia one fall. An icestorm took it down to a two foot tall twig (I thought it was dead). Somehow that summer it created a new leader and now about 15 years later, it is a gorgeous 20+ foot tree. |
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