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Not a million gallons of water! Stick your finger in the soil. When first planted it will need some water two or three times a week. Don’t believe me? Look here! Those plants have never been fertilized!.Especially Japanese maples! They don’t even know what to do with fertilizer! They just don’t need it and too much can and will kill them. I never fertilize the plants in my landscape at home, or in the landscape plantings around my nursery. Fertilizer is worse than heroin or fentanyl! The plants in your landscape do not need fertilizer.If they can’t because the roots are surrounded by standing water that plant is going to die. The roots have to be able to transfer oxygen from the air, through the soil, to the roots. Plants, just like people, will drown when submerged in water for an extended period of time. Here’s a little known fact that most people don’t understand.It’s like filling the bathtub with water and submerging your plant in that water. What kind of advice is that?!!! It’s good advice, that’s what it is! If you dig a hole bigger than the root ball in clay soil, then back fill around that root ball with some kind of loose, porous material all you are doing is allowing excessive water to enter your planting hole with no way for that water to escape.

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After reading #7 you now know that I am bona fide crazy and full of you know what.

If planting your tree in clay soil it’s best to plant it even a little higher than described here and back fill around the root ball with the clay that you removed from the hole.

Stake the tree for at least a year so the roots can get established without the wind rocking the tree back and forth constantly.

Do not pile mulch up around the stem of the tree.Mulch the tree with about 2″ of bark mulch too keep the soil around the roots cool and moist.Then mound the soil up and over the root ball. When planted that root crown should actually be about 1.5 inches above grade if not higher. It will kill them! Whether your tree is balled in burlap or in a container there is a root crown right at the soil level. Like all plants, Japanese maples will fail quickly if you plant them too deep.Never soggy, simply cool and moist to the touch. They love soil that is mostly dry, just moist enough to give them the moisture they need. Japanese maples hate wet feet! Do not plant them in a wet area, or an area where a downspout drains.Too much shade and they will turn green and lose their beautiful colors. Part shade, part sun is where they are the happiest. Japanese maples are an under-story tree and when young they really don’t care for or often don’t do well in full sun.Things to know about planting Japanese maples. In this case the Verticillium Wilt attacked this tree on two sides. But Verticillium Wilt can still occur and it is certainly going to be heart breaking, but in most cases the trees can and will recover nicely. If you follow these recommendations I think you can be assured that you have done everything you can to give your Japanese maples a good home. There are certain ground rules for planting and caring for Japanese maples and I’ll cover those here. There is nothing you can do to prevent it and there really is no cure for it except to prune it out of your plant. My opinion about Verticillium Wilt on Japanese maples? And if you remind me I’ll add updated photos to prove it. Believe it or not, this tree will survive and it will recover nicely. Often times, those observations are more accurate that what you find written in text books. You can not stare at that much dirt and that many plants and learn valuable things through shear observation. You can take my opinion for what it’s worth and my only qualifications to offer such an opinion is to say that I’ve not studied a great deal about plants but I’ve spent the better part of my life, starting at the age of sixteen, I’m 63 today, crawling around in the dirt, working with plants on a daily basis. I’ve read all kinds of explanations of what exactly is going on in the soil to cause this, but quite honestly, in all four cases my soil conditions were different, never soggy, just different soils. I’ve had this happen to at least four Lace leaf weeping Japanese maples in my landscape and it’s happened over a period of time. Obvious Verticillium Wilt on Crimson Queen Japanese maple.