kdrymer
New Member
Hello, we planted a new Sunset Red Maple tree about a week and a half ago. We are noticing the leafs are somewhat turning red, as if the tree may not be doing very well. It also seems to have these small Black circles on the leaves. We are not sure if we are watering the tree too much or not enough. The tree was planted in a gravely base soil and with clay at the bottom of the hole.
I initially planted the tree a little low, relative to where the root flare is with the surrounding soil grade so a day after planting we started digging it up in hopes of raising the tree up a little. This seemed to disturb the root ball and it broke apart in a section so we decided to leave it as is instead of disturbing more. We did purchase a moisture probe at Lowe's and it is showing that the tree is moist, even though we haven't watered it a lot the past few days. I'm looking for any feedback as to what could be happening here. I attached a couple pictures of the tree.
I initially planted the tree a little low, relative to where the root flare is with the surrounding soil grade so a day after planting we started digging it up in hopes of raising the tree up a little. This seemed to disturb the root ball and it broke apart in a section so we decided to leave it as is instead of disturbing more. We did purchase a moisture probe at Lowe's and it is showing that the tree is moist, even though we haven't watered it a lot the past few days. I'm looking for any feedback as to what could be happening here. I attached a couple pictures of the tree.