I have 2 4yr old autumn blaze maple trees. The leaves are deep green and very full during summer but they don't turn into glowing firey red during the fall season. It just turns brown. Is it lacking any special fertilizer? Please help
2006-10-25 07:52:56 · 9 answers · asked by jsc999 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Colour of the maple tree depends on warm days and cold nights. Bigger the difference in day and night temperatures, brighter the colour. The colour is due to trapped sugar in the leaves. Cold nights trap the sugar in the leaves.
2006-10-25 08:11:03 · answer #1 · answered by JD 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Autumn Blaze Maple Leaf
2016-12-26 15:57:25 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could just be the specific trees that you happened to purchase, or where you live. Maples really color the most when they live somewhere that has a "true autumn" where the air dries out and cools down forcing the tree to stop giving the nutrients that contain the green pigment to the leaves, making them red. Not all regions will do that.
If you never have, it might be a good idea to fertilize it anyways.
2006-10-25 08:04:54 · answer #3 · answered by Sgt. Pepper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fire Maple Tree
2016-10-31 14:58:32 · answer #4 · answered by clutts 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the fertilizer will help although it will be heathy for the tree in the long run. It sounds like you have a regular maple tree, unless maturity has something to do with it. Our maple tree is deep red year round and then turns green to brown in the fall.
2006-10-25 08:03:24 · answer #5 · answered by Thomas S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think to get some good advice we need to know what USDA hardiness zone you live in. Autumn Blaze is usually reliable for a great fall color show here in Zone 5.
Fertilizer could help... the colorization is brought by 'burning' excess sugars in the leaves that the plant can't move into 'storage' for the winter. But it wouldn't help if geography is your adversary.
Good luck-
2006-10-26 03:10:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing you can do man. You probably live in a warmer climate, where the leaves dont get too red during fall. I have a some liquid ambar, and several japanese maples that dont get very crimson in the fall, just a reddish brown. But its ok, at least in the spring and summer they look awesome.
2006-10-25 09:12:44 · answer #7 · answered by jeff the drunk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is temperature that is responsible for deciduous tree leaves to change color....ya gotta live where there are frosts.
2006-10-25 08:07:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A can of spray paint works reallly well for that little problem.
2006-10-25 08:00:30 · answer #9 · answered by dreamer 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋