Indoor Acer

Hello there! Just before Christmas I bought 4x sml Acers in the sale at £2.50 each. They're in 10.5cm pots. I put them on the windowsill in my cold utility, with the intention of potting them up and putting outside. Never got 'round to it and now, the acers are really budding up, well ahead of the ones outside. So, if I put them outside now, with -4* temperatures overnight, will those leaf buds die off? Should I wait until temperature rises? Any advice would be most welcome, thank you!

 

Hi ,

if me I would leave on your windowsill .. small acers like yours may not survive minus 4 outside .

come end of March put out during the day and bring back in overnight to get them accustomed to being outside just as you do with annual bedding plants … do that for two weeks then they can stay out
April you can repot when they will grow away quickly , dont do know they won’t root and just sit sulking
spruce

 

That's excellent, thank you! Yes, I think they'd just freeze in their pots, especially as I haven't been able to pot up yet! Great advice, I'll leave them where they are until the temperature picks up, then gradually acclimatise them to outside. Brilliant!