How to raise maple trees

Maple is a famous tree species. Its shape is beautiful and its leaves are red when it falls. Since ancient times, it has been praised by many celebrities and scholars. So, how to raise maple trees?

1. Planting

The maple should be planted from February to March before sprouting in spring. Before planting, the branches and roots should be trimmed, half of the old soil should be removed, the new soil should be replaced, and the rotten bean cake should be used as the base fertilizer at the bottom of the pot. Maple trees like loose, fertile and moist soil, and grow poorly in barren land. Maple trees can be planted with a mixture of humic soil of 2 and 3 and sandy soil of 1 of 3.

2. Venue

Maple trees like shady and cool environment, avoid strong direct sunlight, so bonsai should be placed under the shade shed or under other trees for maintenance, such as placed in strong light or balcony, often appear scorched leaf phenomenon. Due to poor indoor ventilation, maple bonsai should not be placed indoors for more than a week, otherwise it is disadvantageous to growth. In winter in the north, the maple bonsai should be moved into the low-temperature room, and in the south, as long as the pot is buried in the leeward soil, it can survive the winter safely.

3. Watering

Maple leaves are large and water evaporates quickly. In the growing season, water should be often watered. When the weather is hot, water should often be sprinkled to the ground to keep the microclimate moist. The winter maple enters the dormant period, should water less, as long as the basin soil is wet, it can not be watered.

4. Fertilization

Before sprouting and spreading leaves of maple in spring, the organic liquid fertilizer should be applied once, but not in rainy days, from August to September, and not in winter dormancy period.

5. Pruning

Maple trees have strong germination and often grow new buds on the trunk. Buds and over-dense branches that are not needed in modeling should be cut off in time, which can not only save nutrition, but also facilitate ventilation and light transmission. The best viewing period for maple trees is when the new leaves are just unfolded. If all the leaves are removed at the end of summer and a dilute liquid fertilizer is applied, new leaves can grow in about 20 days, which adds another best viewing period.

6. Pest control

The common diseases are brown spot and powdery mildew. When the disease occurs, 50% carbendazim wettable powder 800-1000 times is sprayed, once every 10-15 days, 2 times in a row. The main insect pests are Huang Xi E and Anoplophora glabripennis.

The control of Huang Xie is generally eliminated in late autumn to early spring combined with ploughing the soil and digging pupae, or 1000 times of fenitrothion emulsion is sprayed at the initial stage of larval occurrence. Bare-shouldered longicorn beetles can spray the larvae of tree cadres with 50% fenitrothion EC 150 times the solution to the eggs and xylem, cut down and burn the seriously harmful young trees from the base, or inject 40% dimethoate EC 100 times 200 times into the hole, and then plug the hole with soil, the effect is better.

Maple trees can add vitality and elegant demeanor to most landscapes, and qualified friends can try to plant them in their own yard.