Freeman's Maple, Hybrid Red Maple 'Autumn Blaze'

I have an autumn blaze maple and have planted the seeds from this tree. the plantings are now three foot or so tall and healthy . will ...Read Morethey be autumn blaze or silver maple. ?

This cultivar of the hybrid Silver x Red Maples is probably the most commonly planted and it becomes a dense oval-rounded form that devel...Read Moreops a good orange-red or red fall color. Its leaves are 5-lobed and not as deeply lobed as the Silver Maple parent, but more lobed than the Red Maple parent that has 3-lobed leaves. It is faster growing like the Silver Maple, but stronger wooded like the Red Maple. It adapts to slightly alkaline pH while the Red Maple needs at least a barely acid soil of no more than pH 6.9 or 7.0.

I planted a young Autum Blaze Maple tree last September, it has buds set but as of May 14 2013 the buds have not swollen or opened. The ...Read Moreupper branches are brittle and snap easily however a scratch test on the main trunk shows green....what do I do to help?

Beautiful tree; bright read seed in the spring, much brighter than red maple; nice leaf in spring and summer; no significant disease or p...Read Moreest, but I had some borer; Amazing fall colors, almost luminescent yellow/orange/red.

The trunk is a little thin when young, thinning canopy helps decrease the wind resistance the prevent splitting of breaking; the bark is thin and deer can damage it easily.