Transplanted dogwood tree's leaves have turned brown, but the limbs are still supple. Will it live?
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It may, it all depends on how many roots were kept during the transplant.
Plants do not absorb water through the large roots. Water is absorbed through the hairlike roots that radiate out from the larger ones.
So, it really depends on how many of these hairlike feeder roots were saved.
The leaves have turned brown because trees lsoe a lot of water through their leaves. As a result, the tree is killing off its leaves to save water.
To ensure the best chances of survival, go to your loval garden center and purchase a rooting hormone and put it onto some ofthe larger roots - this will help stimulate new feeder root growth.
Also make sure that you water it fairly often, do not let the soil around the tree remain soaked, but do not let it dry completely either for more than a day.
If the tree survives it will start to grow new leaves in a few weeks. In the meantime, if you want to check to see if it is still alive, gently scrape the bark with your finger mail - if you see a reen layer between the bark and the wood, it is still alive. you can do this as often as you like as the scrapes can by very small and heal in a few days.
however, ifthe tree survives, you are going to lose a lot of branches as the tree will sacrifice these to save itself, so dont expect many of the outer branches to survive. You will most likely see new rowth emerging from the inner branches and/or trunk rather than where the old leaves were.
Good Luck!
yes, its just in shock. as long as you got most of the root system, it should make a full recovery by next season
Dogwoods are very fussy and don't take well to being disturbed. Yours are probably in shock and only time will tell if they'll recover.
You'll know after next winter whether they'll make it.
Read what urbanbulldogge says. The key is stimulating root growth, so give it root growing hormones. Do not give it other fertilizer (you want/need the roots to grow, not the leaves). Water well. Time will tell.
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