Beginner Gardening: Japanese Maple Help Needed, 1 by NYGrower

NYGrower wrote:
Hi. The picture tells me that it is not too much damage. I have a couple of these. One that is very big and one that is about 4 ft tall.

It has been my experience that when the seeds drop, they drop beneath the mother plant, they grow and are shaded by the mother. When they are about 5 inches tall I move them. However I put them in pots and move them to a simi shaded area to continue to grow. I have about 10 of these growing. I never take them out of the pots, and they are put in the ground pot and all.

I don't do much at all to them. No special watering, etc. Only simi shade is what I believe they need as the prior poster said, too much sun will damage the tender leaves.

One year the leaves on my mother went dry, I almost died... I watered and watered, but the leaves fell. The following year the plant was back to it's old self.... Mother nature has a way of getting things back on track.

I have made it a habit of taking my cup of coffee and my three dogs out in the am and walking my total garden, takes about 10 minutes, I look at every plant and tell them, I love them very much but if they do not grow, I plan on kicking "axxxs".... LOL... Point being that one can worry to death over our plants, but in the end, they will make it or not, we can only help the best way we can.