Hello, Beginning of the spring, I have purchased a Bloodgood from a local nursery, It was potted in the winter, taken from the ground.. It's pot was little, not suitable for the spring season.. So I have prepared a acidic organic and inorganic mixture (ph6) with a good drainage... I have transferred the rootball to the larger pot But after 1-2 days, very quickly, the leaves started to dry.. Also some of the leaves were damaged already before potting.. The I have tried a defoliation whic I do for bonsai acers for years.. I cut all the leaves, and took it to a shady and cool corner.. Then waited for new leaves as the bonsai candicate acers do.. But unfortunately small branches all starting to dieback :( they are getting wrinkled and black.. What should you offer me to do ? Can I save the main trunks by a deep prunning, using a cutpaste ?
Hopefully others will chime in, but my guess is because it was dug-up and potted during the winter, the rootball - and branches too, possibly - may have gotten some frost damage. This damage wasn't readily apparent, and the tree had enough energy to leaf out. When it was re-potted now in spring, the extra shock of the transplant, combined with complete defoliation, may have been enough to send it over the edge. I personally wouldn't have done a complete defoliation after a transplant, even if some of the leaves were starting to wilt; the energy reserves required to push a completely new set of leaves is very taxing, especially on an already stressed tree. Moving it to a cool, shaded location was definitely a good call though. When you repotted it, when did you do so? Before or after the it leafed out? Did you touch the rootball at all (loosen any tangled roots)? How compacted was it? There's a chance, if highly compacted, that water isn't getting to the interior of the rootball and the tree is slowly suffocating. How far does the die-back on the branches go? Are there any dark or black splotches elsewhere on the branches or trunk?
Merhaba alibaba, I'm not a specialist at all, but unfortunately I'm almost 100% certain that the branches pictures are dead, unfortunately: the bark is dry and wrinkled, no chance at all to have it backbud there. If there is some green under the bark on the main trunk (scratch it gently with your nail), pruning it drastically may (?) give it a chance to backbud, so it's worth trying. As for the reason why it died, it's hard to tell. If you didn't mess with the rootball, the problem was probably there before repotting. You wrote "I repotted it in winter", but when exactly, and what's the climate like where you live? In Antalya, it's totally different from Ankara, Karaman or Nevsehir: did you have to protect it from the cold? But frankly, I'm afraid this one is a goner :-( PS: "maplesandpaws" beat me on the line! PPS: maybe you could indicate amore precise location, i.e., the closest main city where you live in Turkey. France too has very different climate zones, and i wouldn't say the same thing to someone living in Brittany to someone living on the French Riviera or in the Alps... Alain (...and why don't you sign with you real first name? There are so many nice names like my friend "Baris" ("Peace", or "Sebnur" (moonlight - a friend's mother). Even Savas is OK as long as it's war against what kills our trees ;-)
