Really is disheartening, especially in your case with more than one shrub suffering. I have been advised 3% hydrogen peroxide which I will try and otherwise I think I will just try to provide the most optimum conditions for the health of the tree. If I take were the branches, I couldn't just remove them but clearly that isn't an option either!
This has happened to one of my acer trees, but new branches have grown from the rootstock, which I think may be the "Going Green" - 'Sonkootgre' variety. So I will still have a tree, albeit a different one, and a nice one too.
Rootstock will be the species which is a nice tree in it's own right but gets a lot bigger. The photo looks like black all the way round at the base of the trunk? I'm afraid you need to prepare for the worst, I don't think there's any way back from that. I adore JMs but they are so susceptible to vw it is very disheartening. I lost a Sango Kaku to vine weevil this summer, the cultivars are just not very robust unfortunately.
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Really is disheartening, especially in your case with more than one shrub suffering. I have been advised 3% hydrogen peroxide which I will try and otherwise I think I will just try to provide the most optimum conditions for the health of the tree. If I take were the branches, I couldn't just remove them but clearly that isn't an option either!
The photo looks like black all the way round at the base of the trunk? I'm afraid you need to prepare for the worst, I don't think there's any way back from that.
I adore JMs but they are so susceptible to vw it is very disheartening. I lost a Sango Kaku to vine weevil this summer, the cultivars are just not very robust unfortunately.