kcd1757
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About 4 months ago I had a Japanese Maple Tree replanted from my parents house. They are re-doing their pool area and their were two maple trees in the way of the new deck, I wanted to take one and my dad wanted to relocate the other on the same property. I got a few quotes from the area to relocate it and most were trying to charge me around $1200 to move it. The company that was building the deck offered to move them as part of contract - they are a landscaping company so I figured it would be fine and just went with them.
I wasn't there the day they moved mine but I watched it back on my parents cameras because there was a ton of damage on the tree after they replanted it at my place. They basically couldn't get their backhoe arm around the edges so they tried to push it through the branches of the tree and dig it up from the opposite side. The ball was not very big and they scratched up the trunk + damaged a bunch of the branches.
They dropped it in a hole I pre-dug. I used Fertilome Concentrate Root Stimulator on it, back filled it and put a few yards of mulch around it (trying not to volcano it). For the first few months I watered it often and it seemed to be doing fine.. but here in NJ we've been having severe heat waves and it started to dry up. I tried watering it more often during those days and I tried using slow release fertilizer but it's still trying up, to the point where I think it might be too late:
https://photos.fife.usercontent.goo...5wrC2gh9cB6XdKg=w1409-h793-s-no-gm?authuser=0
https://photos.fife.usercontent.goo...I5OWc4xn53RBZ2zg=w446-h793-s-no-gm?authuser=0
It gets slightly less sun in the new spot but for the most part the conditions are similar. I'm thinking it's lost at this point? Or does it look recoverable?
FWIW my father's tree is flourshing and he also used the root stimulator and watered it roughly the same amount as mine. The only difference is that he used way more mulch and doesn't have a dog sitting on the mulch each day (my dog likes to sleep under the tree - he doesn't pee on it or anything though) - he basically flattened the mulch I put down.
Idk - just looking for any advice at this point or maybe its a lost cause.
I wasn't there the day they moved mine but I watched it back on my parents cameras because there was a ton of damage on the tree after they replanted it at my place. They basically couldn't get their backhoe arm around the edges so they tried to push it through the branches of the tree and dig it up from the opposite side. The ball was not very big and they scratched up the trunk + damaged a bunch of the branches.
They dropped it in a hole I pre-dug. I used Fertilome Concentrate Root Stimulator on it, back filled it and put a few yards of mulch around it (trying not to volcano it). For the first few months I watered it often and it seemed to be doing fine.. but here in NJ we've been having severe heat waves and it started to dry up. I tried watering it more often during those days and I tried using slow release fertilizer but it's still trying up, to the point where I think it might be too late:
https://photos.fife.usercontent.goo...5wrC2gh9cB6XdKg=w1409-h793-s-no-gm?authuser=0
https://photos.fife.usercontent.goo...I5OWc4xn53RBZ2zg=w446-h793-s-no-gm?authuser=0
It gets slightly less sun in the new spot but for the most part the conditions are similar. I'm thinking it's lost at this point? Or does it look recoverable?
FWIW my father's tree is flourshing and he also used the root stimulator and watered it roughly the same amount as mine. The only difference is that he used way more mulch and doesn't have a dog sitting on the mulch each day (my dog likes to sleep under the tree - he doesn't pee on it or anything though) - he basically flattened the mulch I put down.
Idk - just looking for any advice at this point or maybe its a lost cause.