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Wild cherry tree recent transplant (please help)
a-flashflood-ofcolour
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Recently transplanted a wild cherry tree a few weeks back and now it's starting to lose its leaves. The leaves aren't changing colour they just seem to be dropping off for no reason. I'm afraid it might be root shock but I'm also not sure if it's just losing them naturally because of the time of year.
Here are some pictures I took of it today and it seems really miserable...
This is my first time I've had a cherry tree so I don't have much experience with them but I hope someone can help me out and help put my mind at rest
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when you say transplanted, do you mean dug up and moved or planted a container grown plant?
In the sticks near Peterborough
The tree was originally in a pot before we put it in the ground
It's not a good time of year for tree planting. If you prepared the hole well, loosened the soil around it, loosened the roots on the cherry, soaked it well so the root ball is wet, that's all you could do. Keep it and the surrounding soil moist but not wet and speak to it nicely
In the sticks near Peterborough
Probably not enough water. It's often the case that potted trees can't take in enough water from the surrounding soil until they have grown some new roots which will take a few months. I'd give it a bucketful every couple of days from now until the rest of the trees in your area have naturally lost all of their leaves.
You should also really keep an area of at least a couple of feet diameter clear of grass around the trunk. Grass is a very hungry plant and will out-compete the tree for water and food.