my pair of weeping cherries have gotten very out of whack! ive pruned them before but i seem to have one more vigorous than the other... ive pruned them just getting things that were reverting to upright growth and in the way but im afraid to prune one and not the other. do i prune in fall??? can they take a serious whacking???
thanks
taya .
here they are from the other side . the crazy hyacinth vine is creeping all over the big oneand its totally undaunted.
here they are 4 years ago! in spring
this year i also put fertilizer stakes around the little one hoping to give it a jumpstart... seems to be no difference.
Shoot, I thought I replied to this thread a couple of days ago but it must not have gone through. Well, let's try again.
I'm guessing if one tree is showing all upright growth it probably has died back and is coming from below the graft. Weeping cherries normally are grafted high ("standards") and if the tree is growing from below the graft you actually have whatever it was grafted on, not the weeper anymore. That might account for the difference in growth rate also, although I would expect a rootstock to put out more vigorous growth than the scion unless a root problem is causing the stress.
Anyway, take a look and see if the weaker, more upright tree's foliage and twigs don't look like a different species. If that's not it, or if you do have some weeping growth still there but it's being supressed in favor of upright growth, you might have a graft incompatibility problem. Beyond that, I dunno.
Hope some of that helps --
Guy S.
