Nonweeping weeper

[Tom_Scheller]

Can anyone tell me what causes a weeping cherry to revert to it's original form? It's about 15yrs old and just started going "upright" about 3 years ago. Now it's about 50/50.

???

 

[Bodean]

Tie rocks and hang them from the up rights.

Make those suckers weep.

 

[brendonv]

See it all the time, check out this "Weeping Spruce" before and after.

The WC is grafted onto a "Normal" Cherry stalk, they don't occur from seed in weeping form. It's an abnormality, like Alberta Spruce.

Why it happens I'm not sure, from the start one should never let it begin to happen. It's really easy once you see it to prune it out, but some let them get too aggressive, like the pics below.

 

[Mr. Sir]

Maybe its found its happy place.

 

[Chisel Tooth]

Maybe its found its happy place.

Damn Brett I almost spit tea on my monitor hahahahaaha

 

[sotc]

Like Brendan said, probably the root stock sprouting. Does the upright growth flower a different color than the weeping? I'm betting yes, you need to keep the sprout growth pruned out or you will lose weeping part which is what you paid the big bucks for

 

[stehansen]

Maybe its found its happy place.

I agree, it's probably the root stock sprouting. Or maybe what Brett said.

 

[treelooker]

yup yall got it; not a rootstock precisely but an "interstock", since there are 2 grafts on many weeping trees, and it is the middle portion that breaks bud sometimes.

But yes getting near my "happy place" does get a rise out of me too...

then a while later I get pendulous again, until stimulated anew.