Hello all! I have visited this site countless times for valuable info, but this is my first post. I have a so-called Acer palmatum ‘Bloodgood.' I brought her home late last summer from a nursery. I live in climate zone 3 and the tree is hardy in zone 7, so I had decided to make her an indoor tree during the cold months. All was well, she was healthy and bright red until december, when I decided it was about time to let her go dormant. So to my slightly heated garage she went where she stayed for about 2000 hours. I brought her back into my house mid february, and a week later I noticed she was waking up! A little over 2 months passed by, and most of her then bright-green leaves were partially bright red. It was beautiful, and so was the sunny, warm days we were having. So I would let her sit outside for a couple hours to catch some extra rays. All was well except for one day, I forgot her outside too long and it got cold - below freezing! She was a gross looking yellow color, and when I brought her inside, all of her leaves went limp and she stunk!! lol :( I am sooooo sad!! All of her leaves are drying up now and falling... What do I do now?? This tree was my project!
Ohhh!!! You cut one branch if is green ok, if is brown cut again if you find green ok ,if you have one branch green sorry ,no branch green you shop another maple and start a new project!! Is the life........alex
There's a very good chance the branches will have survived, even if the leaves did not. It's just like the effect of a bad late spring frost - nasty, but not fatal. Trees have been coping with late spring frosts for millions of years. They put out new leaves from dormant buds.
