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rainbowgardner,

I did the bark test and seems to still be green. But when I tried it on some other part, its not green its like as if its dried out. I let it dried off a bit but its been raining/misting for a week now and I don't see any change. Should I bring it into somewhere to see what happens?

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Yeah I'd say definitely not dead... maybe needing a little bit of reviving but it'll get there!

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so by reviving, you mean? cause I haven't water it for awhile now, and just let nature do its thing....meaning I let the rain or mist do its thing.

Still nothing....hhhmmmmmm any ideas?

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Hello all, thanks for all your previous help but I am afraid the little thing has passed on. So I bought another one.... picture below.

What concerns me is the the tips of the leaves are starting to dry up? (see those white specs in the pic) I don't understand, I water it like every 2 days or so, so not that much watering. I mist the leaves every morning before the sun comes out fully. Is there any need to be concerned? Please let me know, thanks

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How much sun does it get? Japanese maples don't like much direct sun. I have one that looks like the exact same variety. (Do you know what it is? I just bought mine at the supermarket, labelled Japanese maple.) Anyway mine is planted in the shade of a big lilac shrub, gets hardly any direct sun and does great there.

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I put it out in the open in the sun....so I guess I should move it into the shades.

Thanks for the help..

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At least protection from afternoon sun. A part shade location with morning sun would be ok. But they are naturally understory trees and prefer filtered or indirect light.

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so the tree in my first post is gone. Unfortunate, but I got a another and its my second year with it already. It just budded and leafed, its doing awesome. But earlier this year, around early March, where our Massachusetts weather went all whacky and got warm and then cold again..... but anyway, I noticed there were TONS of black aphids and aphid eggs on the THEN sprouting leaves, I scraped and blasted it with water.

Now it seems to be doing OK BUT I also have 2 flowering cherry trees, 2 Yoshino's. The leaves are being eatin already.

Now I am afraid that it will cause problems to my other trees and especially my maple. So I just ordered some Tanglefoot, I guess my new question for today, can I use that for my Maple tree?



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