Help with hydrangeas (Now with PIP)

cakozelka10 · March 2011

I planted a hydrangea about a month ago or so. It is one that is brand new... or basically just the root and a small stick or two. I am wondering how long it may take before showing signs of growing. It still just looks like a little stick. TIA for any help!

living_insanity · March 2011

Mine is a few years old and it still looks like sticks but it now has a little green here and there. I live in MD. It's far from filling out

nitaw · March 2011

It takes them a while to leaf out. I'm in TN and my hydrangeas are just beginning to green.

cakozelka10 · March 2011

Oh my! It will probably take a long time then. Mine is seriously like small twig sized. :-)

~NB~ · March 2011

I have a whole yard full of Hydrangeas and the new leaves are about 1-2" long now.

kastle · March 2011

cakozelka10:
Oh my! It will probably take a long time then. Mine is seriously like small twig sized. :-)

are you asking when your hydrangea is going to have leaves or when it's going to be a ginormous shrub? Because hydrangeas are deciduous shrubs which means they lose their leaves & get new ones in the spring. Assuming yours wasn't pruned such that buds were cut off, you should be getting leaves soon. If you don't, just check for new growth at the base for signs of life.

It will take a few years before your short twigs become a large shrub (which will still lose leaves every winter and just look like big sticks coming out of the ground until spring!)

cakozelka10 · March 2011

kastle:
cakozelka10:
Oh my! It will probably take a long time then. Mine is seriously like small twig sized. :-)
are you asking when your hydrangea is going to have leaves or when it's going to be a ginormous shrub? Because hydrangeas are deciduous shrubs which means they lose their leaves & get new ones in the spring. Assuming yours wasn't pruned such that buds were cut off, you should be getting leaves soon. If you don't, just check for new growth at the base for signs of life.
It will take a few years before your short twigs become a large shrub (which will still lose leaves every winter and just look like big sticks coming out of the ground until spring!)

I guess I am just wondering when it should show signs of growth so I know that it is alive. See the pick above.

~NB~ · March 2011

cakozelka10:

I guess I am just wondering when it should show signs of growth so I know that it is alive. See the pick above.

If you're in NC, it should have small leaves, all over it, RIGHT NOW. The buds should be OBVIOUS, and most numerous at ground level.

cakozelka10 · March 2011

Aw man. I hope I did not kill it! I guess I will water it today. (It has been a few days since the last rain. The package said a good watering once a week.) And see how it goes. Our front yard grass is not green yet and our tree is still trying to make leaves, not of the back mature trees have leaves so I guess if it has nothing by the time all of that happens I will know its probably dead. :-/

CDMay2006 · March 2011

cakozelka10:
Aw man. I hope I did not kill it! I guess I will water it today. (It has been a few days since the last rain. The package said a good watering once a week.) And see how it goes. Our front yard grass is not green yet and our tree is still trying to make leaves, not of the back mature trees have leaves so I guess if it has nothing by the time all of that happens I will know its probably dead. :-/

I wouldn't assume that so soon. The pp's hydrangeas have been growing undisturbed. Yours was just transplanted a month ago, so its prime leaf-developing time was interrupted. I don't know hydrangeas, but i have transplanted other bushy things before (like blueberries) which did not leaf out in the year they were transplanted. Maybe it's not the same for hydrangeas, but i'd think you may have to wait till late winter next year to start seeing buds.

kastle · March 2011

CDMay2006:
cakozelka10:
Aw man. I hope I did not kill it! I guess I will water it today. (It has been a few days since the last rain. The package said a good watering once a week.) And see how it goes. Our front yard grass is not green yet and our tree is still trying to make leaves, not of the back mature trees have leaves so I guess if it has nothing by the time all of that happens I will know its probably dead. :-/
I wouldn't assume that so soon. The pp's hydrangeas have been growing undisturbed. Yours was just transplanted a month ago, so its prime leaf-developing time was interrupted. I don't know hydrangeas, but i have transplanted other bushy things before (like blueberries) which did not leaf out in the year they were transplanted. Maybe it's not the same for hydrangeas, but i'd think you may have to wait till late winter next year to start seeing buds.

You could also snip a little off the top of one of the branches & see if it's still alive.

But, if it isn't, plants aren't zombies. Or Jesus. All the water in the world isn't going bring it back to life if it is, in fact, dead.

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