Best Hormone solutions to grow Autumn Blaze

vktaylor

I planted a small Autumn Blaze maple about 2 ft. tall. I have already watered the tree regularly and used Bayer's Tree/Shrub solution to protect it against insects.

Here's the question:

I have heard that Autumn Blaze maple can grow 5ft to 9 ft within the first 12 months. If my goal is to see 9ft worth of growth, is there a hormone solution on the market that will expedite growth in the dormant season and early spring?

Thanks,

VT

I am in the Cedar Hill, Texas area.

Sean Freeman

Hi VK, your question raises a few problems, firstly manipulating the growth rate and patterns in any tree species is something that fruit growers have been attempting for a great many years and still have no reached the point where they can defeat the determining factors of the environment in which the trees grow. Secondly if you do attempt to force any tree to grow faster than it is genetically predetermined to you will force the tree into debt, both in terms of the carbon resource it must sacrifice to new growth and in terms of the energy and hormonal control pathways so essential to normal healthy growth.

My advice to you is this create the best soil environment possible for the particular tree, start by establiching just what is going on in your soil now...comprehensive soil testing, including the living biological elements of the soil...the soil food web. Then you can begin to make informed amendments to the soil to improve the conditions for your tree.

The rule in nature is fast growth leads to shortened life span.all the pioneer species grow exceptionally quickly and live very short lives in comparison with other trees.

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Ekka

Sean

I've been pondering about this post and may make an assumption.

I believe the tree could also then be weaker, composed more of earlywood structure rather than more compacted less elongated cells of latewood growth.

You'd possibly end up with a bigger more slender tree more susceptible to breakage down the track.

What do you reckon?

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Sean Freeman

If you could alter the hormonal control system within the tree then yes I quess it would be possible to end up with the consequence you describe...and many of us have seen the results from herbicide damaged plants where disruption of hormonal control leads not only to irratic twisted deformed growth but to some extent what you describe, disrupted disordered cellular division.

For me any artificial forcing of the growth of any trees is so fraught with dangers that it is not worth the effort.

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Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
- Kahlil Gibran