After receipt of the tree, I believe I followed all of the start up instructions properly. The did fine for about two months, then all of the leaves fell off.
I thought I had killed it, but in a week or so all of the folage returned, it was even more beautiful. And about a week ago, all of the leaves fell off again, some are now returning.
What am I doing wrong. The tree is kept inside and get good natural light.
Temp at about 73 deg.
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TomM
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A Chinese elm tree, being an elm tree, does not want to be kept at a steady 73 degrees indoors. It should be outside, with the other temperate trees.
Readers forgive me for being such an outdoor advocate. I understand that that is not the answer to everything. But for so many problems mentioned here I just can't help but think - "get it outside where it belongs".
If I was an elm tree I would throw a fit in the house too!
Pity all the poor juni's, the pines and maples, all the elms, beeches, cypresses and larches locked up like so many prisoners in HOUSES around the world. Imagine a huge breakout - they escape! An enormous jailbreak!
Imagine the collective SIGH! FREE AT LAST. FREE AT LAST. Ahh Nature.
Again, sorry. I'm getting crazy
But this is what I do.
Readers forgive me for being such an outdoor advocate. I understand that that is not the answer to everything. But for so many problems mentioned here I just can't help but think - "get it outside where it belongs".
If I was an elm tree I would throw a fit in the house too!
Pity all the poor juni's, the pines and maples, all the elms, beeches, cypresses and larches locked up like so many prisoners in HOUSES around the world. Imagine a huge breakout - they escape! An enormous jailbreak!
Imagine the collective SIGH! FREE AT LAST. FREE AT LAST. Ahh Nature.
Again, sorry. I'm getting crazy
But this is what I do.Have to agree on the elm, outdoors, sheltered in winter. There are subtropical U. parvifolia. I've yet to be able to glean any information as to whether or not this is a separate subspecies or not. Even so, I've never seen specific localities of elms for sale, so it's a moot point. The "dwarf" cultivars, for sure, can not tolerate cold as well as standard elms. But, and I've posted this elsewhere, if an elm is kept indoors without clearly defined seasonal changes, it eventually "gets confused" and falls into a cycle of going dormant and coming out of dormancy, repeatedly, and sometimes both at once, until it dies. If tried this a number of times, with a number of trees, and every one did the same exact thing.
I hate to keep puffing a commercial site on somebody elses forums. With that said Brent Walston gives good clues on what he beleives are the minimum temperatures for the trees he grows. Elms and zelkova are some of those.
FWIW all of his elms grow out of doors all year round. So I have to agree with other posters. You probably can ovewinter this family of trees in a cold room with a substantial supplimental lighting system.
On top of the tv, sounds like a death sentence for a tree to me...
FWIW all of his elms grow out of doors all year round. So I have to agree with other posters. You probably can ovewinter this family of trees in a cold room with a substantial supplimental lighting system.
On top of the tv, sounds like a death sentence for a tree to me...