Dying acer

Well, I wouldn’t give up yet. Let it rest the winter and see if it springs back to life next spring.

That happened to my little twig that I have been growing. But this spring it came back beautifully, but is now once again looking sorry for itself so I will do the same again, and try to work out what is is at this time of year it hates.

If you find the answer I’d be pleased to know😊

The identical problem here. My acer has been wonderful for over ten years, but now looks half dead. Some branches have no leaves at all, for the first time ever.

Just chatting to my neighbour who says the same thing with hers.
Should we prune it or just leave it as WWM2 suggests.

I only prune obvious dead twigs. Acers do not take kindly to pruning I think.

This happened to my Acer a few years ago. I thought it was dying but, after showing a photo of it to the "tree expert" at a garden centre, I was told it would be fine if I watered and fed it. Sure enough a few weeks later it made a miraculous recovery and has been fine ever since.

One of mine is fine but the other is looking pretty close to death. I'll try the feed and water remedy, thanks.

I'll try Tomato feed. Plants seem to like this. Thanks 👍.

Acres need feeding with a liquid ericaceous feed unless they are planted in acid soil. If it is in a pot you can try replacing at least half the compost with an ericaceous compost.

They won’t thrive in alkaline soil so you need to check the conditions where it’s growing.

Is it since the hot weather? Acers don't like a lot of full sun, they get leaf scorch. I have had a bit of this with a couple of mine, the darkest coloured ones seem to suffer the most in the sun.

I have half a dozen acers all together, so I feed them with specialist acer food available on Amazon.

We lost one this year. I think it has just been too wet. I was incredibly sad

I think the advice is to feed and just let it be. It might just need to rest for a bit.

Thanks for all the advice. I’ll look for feed on Amazon and give it some TLC.