[IBC] Maple seedlings

Dan Voicu

I have some maple seedlings that have grown nicely..until about last week.
The first set of leaves are extremely moist and fragile. They arent dried,
but they seem to be dying. When I touch them, especially the tips, they're
very "wet" and arent firm and dry as with healthy leaves. I put them in
the morning sun yesterday and today, with no improvement. Are the leaves
like this because of the wind? Here in Toronto, its very windy. I'm trying
not to risk putting them out in full sun..as they might dry out. Any ideas?

_Dan_

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Jim Lewis

How large are these seedlings? How old? How have you been
watering them? Where have you been keeping them? What maple?
Did you fertilize? With what? How much?

Sounds like they're rotting somehow.

Jim Lewis - jklewis@nettally.com - Tallahassee, FL - Only where
people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and
its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect it
should have - Paul Bigelow Sears.

Billy M. Rhodes

In a message dated 6/25/2004 5:02:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
jklewis@NETTALLY.COM writes:

> Sounds like they're rotting somehow.
>
I agree with Jim. I suspect that it might be still fairly cool in
Toronto and the seedlings are getting to much water.
It will be difficult to save them if they have root rot. Take a look
at the roots of one plant. Are they firm and healthy or mushy? Mushy is bad.
You can try repotting in new, sterile soil and treating the seedlings
with a horticultural fungicide, but it is probably a waste of time and money.

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Anita Hawkins

> I have some maple seedlings that have grown nicely..until about last week.
> The first set of leaves are extremely moist and fragile.

Dan - by "first set of leaves" do you mean the fist set
which emerged from the soil? If so, these "seedling leaves"
generally yellow and dry up during the first summer, no
cause for concern. If you mean the newest smallest set of
laves, yes it is cause for concern. They're either wilting
from moisture loss (perhaps wind, as you said, in which
case... put them somewhere protected from wind! or build a
little wall of bricks beside them), or because of a fungal
infection in the roots/soil. If the second, as Jim and Billy
suggested, not much to be done but keep them on the dryish
side and hope. Most commercially available fungicides for
the consumer are of little use against root rot. If they
die, discard plants and soil (trash, not compost) and
sanitize the pots before reusing.

Anita
--
Northern Harford County, Maryland, USDA zone 6
"I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my
own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the
heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the
woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick
dew-wet red berries in a cup."
~Wendell Berry

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