Acer isn't looking so ace...

It probably a combination of factors here that end up producing this.

Full sun all day and funnily enough, never drying out!

If you have planted a small rootball into a large container, the outer compost will often stay just too wet for the young roots so their tips rot off and the plant can't then take water up. The irony is that there is plenty of water in the compost but the plant can't use it. You would have done better to move up gradually by a pot size each jump. This allows the roots chance to fill the next body of soil up and the soil doesn't stay wet as long.

The hot sunny weather of late will just have helped crisp up those leaves. Remember, Acer palmatum is an understorey tree in it's native Japan and is adapted to part shade/dappled sunlight.

Fractal is so right, I moved mine recently although qwrong time of year to do this but had to be done as was frying in the sun
hoping and praying the shadier area its in will make it better

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Thanks for the tips... :-) What a nice, friendly and helpfull forum.
Re-potting and shading begins tomorrow !!!... Photos shall follow ...
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what soil should i use to repot my acers

what soil should i use to repot my acers

APPARENTLY THEY LIKE SLIGHTLY ACIDIC SOIL, ADDING COFFEE GROUNDS TO COMPOST HEAPS HELP MAKE IT ACIDIC SO MAYBE MIXING A TEENY BIT TO THE SOIL WOULD HELP

if not Im sure you can buy special acidic soil

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