Why Does My Plant Look like It's Dying Right After Planting?
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A few days ago I planted three hydrangeas along the side of my house. Currently, we are in a terrible heatwave in California. The side of my house, where I planted them, gets the morning sun. They look terribly wilted. The beautiful large blue blooms I fell in love with have turned a bluish-brown. I have taken to heart the watering tactic, in the appropriate amount.
I'm going to just chill. I'm not going to panic. This freak climate change induced heatwave, that has shattered several records here, will soon pass and my little plants will get a much needed break.
I'm going to just chill.
Date: 2022-07-16
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McScott76
Just planted 4 Autumn Blaze maple trees (about 6 footers. It's been a week, and I've been watering them daily. The leaves are wilting, and I'm worried they're going to die. I'm not sure if I'm overwatering, underwatering or just need to chill and let them adjust. They were purchased in #5 pots and planted in loose, pretty good topsoil. Everything I read was that these trees are very low maintenance and shouldn't need any special care. The one thing it said I should do is water well until they get established. Is a week of daily watering enough? Should I stop and just let nature take over?
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Just planted 4 Autumn Blaze maple trees (about 6 footers. It's been a week, and I've been watering them daily. The leaves are wilting, and I'm worried they're going to die. I'm not sure if I'm overwatering, underwatering or just need to chill and let them adjust. They were purchased in #5 pots and planted in loose, pretty good topsoil. Everything I read was that these trees are very low maintenance and shouldn't need any special care. The one thing it said I should do is water well until they get established. Is a week of daily watering enough? Should I stop and just let nature take over?
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Sarah
Great timing. I put a Bali Hardy Hibiscus in the ground at the beginning of the week and forgot to include fertilizer. Ive been worrying about it all week. But it was watered in well, filled in with fresh potting soil, topped with 3 layer of mulch, gets shade until noon, and weve had at least one heavy rain storm since planting with more on the way in the next two weeks. so I think it might be okay. Now to worry about my pumpkins. Ive neglected them and now they have an infestation of cucumber beetles and powdery mildew and my neem spray just isnt cutting it.
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Great timing. I put a Bali Hardy Hibiscus in the ground at the beginning of the week and forgot to include fertilizer. Ive been worrying about it all week. But it was watered in well, filled in with fresh potting soil, topped with 3 layer of mulch, gets shade until noon, and weve had at least one heavy rain storm since planting with more on the way in the next two weeks. so I think it might be okay. Now to worry about my pumpkins. Ive neglected them and now they have an infestation of cucumber beetles and powdery mildew and my neem spray just isnt cutting it.
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Simply
I planted limelight hydrengia after watching your video and my hydrengia got burned and I cut the burned bloom in mid summer. I got nice foliage but no flowers now yet. I hope I didn't kill my limelight. Thanks for your informative video. Thanks to you. You are my inspiration and you are amazingly energetic person. I am also mom of 11 months old baby. I somehow find time to watch your video and planted few perennials. I am hoping for the good result.
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I planted limelight hydrengia after watching your video and my hydrengia got burned and I cut the burned bloom in mid summer. I got nice foliage but no flowers now yet. I hope I didn't kill my limelight. Thanks for your informative video. Thanks to you. You are my inspiration and you are amazingly energetic person. I am also mom of 11 months old baby. I somehow find time to watch your video and planted few perennials. I am hoping for the good result.
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KMicheleN
Our ginger wine ninebark got powdery mildew REALLY bad the second spring we had it in the ground. I treated it and waited all summer for it to rebound but once the leaves fell off it was done for. I cut it back almost to the ground this spring and now its 6 feet tall! And, we were able to get on top of some aphids and powdery mildew before it overwhelmed the plant this year! Cant wait to see what it does next year!
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Our ginger wine ninebark got powdery mildew REALLY bad the second spring we had it in the ground. I treated it and waited all summer for it to rebound but once the leaves fell off it was done for. I cut it back almost to the ground this spring and now its 6 feet tall! And, we were able to get on top of some aphids and powdery mildew before it overwhelmed the plant this year! Cant wait to see what it does next year!
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bluesky7226
EXCELLENT Laura! Thank you! I work in a garden center, and 90% of the time it's a watering issue that causes plant death/stress. I planted an entire garden with annuals, perennials, Bobo hydrangeas and roses on a close to 100 degree day in July for my kids. I asked them to water everyday for the first few weeks. They did and they had zero loss. That first year of consistent watering is crucial.
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EXCELLENT Laura! Thank you! I work in a garden center, and 90% of the time it's a watering issue that causes plant death/stress. I planted an entire garden with annuals, perennials, Bobo hydrangeas and roses on a close to 100 degree day in July for my kids. I asked them to water everyday for the first few weeks. They did and they had zero loss. That first year of consistent watering is crucial.
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EMME
That maple behind you has some sun burn needs more water. when that tree in the fall drops it's seeds, get a big flat 2 of potting mix put in 3 to 4 hundred seeds into it. wet down to moist over winter cold storage, spring all seedlings into small pots around garden in shady areas a little sun well watered every day good drainage in 3 to 4 yrs you will have 3 to 4 hundred nice plantable 3ft MAPLES
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That maple behind you has some sun burn needs more water. when that tree in the fall drops it's seeds, get a big flat 2 of potting mix put in 3 to 4 hundred seeds into it. wet down to moist over winter cold storage, spring all seedlings into small pots around garden in shady areas a little sun well watered every day good drainage in 3 to 4 yrs you will have 3 to 4 hundred nice plantable 3ft MAPLES
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Vero
I planted a butterfly maple and it immediately burned and stressed. I kept watering it and tried defoliating some if the leaves. I think when it started pushing new leaves, it stressed out even more. I now have the black spots on branches and the new leaves have fell off and I'm stressed. Will it survive and just go dormant thus winter?
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I planted a butterfly maple and it immediately burned and stressed. I kept watering it and tried defoliating some if the leaves. I think when it started pushing new leaves, it stressed out even more. I now have the black spots on branches and the new leaves have fell off and I'm stressed. Will it survive and just go dormant thus winter?
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Carol
Buy a lot of stressed plants and you have to give them a chance. Most of the time they come and look really good they just needed to be out of the cans they were in. Only problem when you do this is that your plants dont look really pretty or lush from the start. I only do this to perennials that I now they will come back next year.
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Buy a lot of stressed plants and you have to give them a chance. Most of the time they come and look really good they just needed to be out of the cans they were in. Only problem when you do this is that your plants dont look really pretty or lush from the start. I only do this to perennials that I now they will come back next year.
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liz
I so needed this video! Thank you! I planted a dogwood in the spring and it's been stressed all summer. We are high clay here and I amended the soil, but have still watched it stress. It's still hanging in there and I have been babying it, but I needed to hear that mother nature doesn't matter. :)
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I so needed this video! Thank you! I planted a dogwood in the spring and it's been stressed all summer. We are high clay here and I amended the soil, but have still watched it stress. It's still hanging in there and I have been babying it, but I needed to hear that mother nature doesn't matter. :)
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