Acer plant got waterlogged

Ruud

Hi

Last week my acer plant got waterlogged in its pot and all the leaves have now died , could someone please take a look at the picture to tell me what i can now do.
Ie should i pull the leaves off?

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/796/dscf0235y.jpg

Thanks

colt

hi ruud it looks like what happened to my acer. On Thursday I had a knock at the door from a guy from the food and eviroment research agency. He asked if i still had the acer i got from thompson n morgan which i had. He asked if he could see it i told him it looked like it was dying anyway he tookone look and said he thinks it was infested by a citrus longhorn beetle he then told me he needed to remove it right away and take it to be tested he gave me a voucher to spend at t & m. I would get in touch with fera just in case its not down to being waterlogged.

Ruud

well its 2 years old and my other acer plant is fine , but that one is more busher so the rain just goes on the leaves.

I know for a fact it wasnt from T&M

Davesnave

Usually, when an acer is overwatered & the leaves drop, it's terminal. Sorry.

I overwatered a few of mine on an off-lying site during the May hot spell, but I should have just moved them into the shade.

Ruud

i didnt water it , it was the dam rain.
so even if i pull the leaves off , it wont grow back

Churchmouse

Well I wouldn't give up too soon. I've had acers get into this state, never been too sure why, and they've sprouted again. Not saying yours will, but I'd certainly give it a few weeks before binning it.:D

Davesnave

Ruud wrote: »

i didnt water it , it was the dam rain.
so even if i pull the leaves off , it wont grow back

Unlikely. It is hard to see exactly the size of the pot, but it's important that plants aren't overpotted, as waterlogging and souring of the compost can occur. Try potting it up into a smaller pot & new compost, place in a shadyish spot and hope!

On the other hand, if they are in pots a little on the small side, as mine were, the temptation is to slap the water on, and if the weather turns....

They are tricky. A good drainage layer in the bottom of the pot helps. I had about ten, and it was the tiddlers that snuffed-it. I also have one tiny thing in a 3" pot that sat out all last winter and still survived, even when I forgot all about it.

Davesnave

colt wrote: »

hi ruud it looks like what happened to my acer. On Thursday I had a knock at the door from a guy from the food and eviroment research agency. He asked if i still had the acer i got from thompson n morgan which i had. He asked if he could see it i told him it looked like it was dying anyway he tookone look and said he thinks it was infested by a citrus longhorn beetle he then told me he needed to remove it right away and take it to be tested he gave me a voucher to spend at t & m. I would get in touch with fera just in case its not down to being waterlogged.

That was interesting, if not a great advert for T&M!

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/newsrele.nsf/WebPressReleases/8098DEF2403325BE80257073004F78D7

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2008/08/14150205

http://www.stackyard.com/news/2006/07/environment/07_citrus_longhorn_beetles.html

Looks rather worrying....:(

colt

Hi Davesnave My post was not intended to advertise T & M but to advise ruud on the problem with the Acer, it just so happens that the info they are going on is from this company. The guy from FERA told me if I was made aware of any other acer showing the same symptoms to give them the info for FERA. This is because of the very serious nature of this beetle being in the uk, but for give me for trying to let members know so that our own native tree's are not wiped out I will keep my opinions to myself in future

Davesnave

colt wrote: »

Hi Davesnave My post was not intended to advertise T & M but to advise ruud on the problem with the Acer, it just so happens that the info they are going on is from this company. The guy from FERA told me if I was made aware of any other acer showing the same symptoms to give them the info for FERA. This is because of the very serious nature of this beetle being in the uk, but for give me for trying to let members know so that our own native tree's are not wiped out I will keep my opinions to myself in future

I think you misunderstand me.

The reason why I put three links in my post was because I followed yours up and considered what you'd said was worth flagging-up more strongly. It looks like this pest could be a very worrying threat. I said that too.

I wasn't seriously suggesting you intended either to advertise or defame T&M, who are as much in the middle of this as you are, having purchased the trees from the Dutch, who in turn sourced them originally from China. However, if you'd wanted to keep their name out of the info, you could easily have done so.

No doubt, as a large and responsible company, T&M alerted Defra once they realised they had a problem. If Defra are going direct to people's addresses, then they are really worried. Somewhere along the line, the controls on the import of plant material dfrom outside the EU haven't worked.

I hope that explains what I meant. I apologise for my throwaway line about T&M, though once a company is named in a context such as this, some readers will make inferences that were never meant to be made.

colt

Hi davesnave i appologies then myself i thought you meant something very different and am pleased with your reply thankyou