Need Help w/ Eastern Redbud

Hello kind professionals,

Hope everyone is having a nice evening/morning. In early Spring of this year I started an Eastern Redbud from seed and it is doing remarkably well as far as I can tell. Lots of growth and HUGE leaves.

My question is.... I am wondering if I should prune the leave on the new seedling? or just leave it alone? Also considering the size of the tree and the pot it is in when is the best time to transplant to a bigger pot. Shall I double the size of the pot? Shall I keep the plant indoors through the upcoming winter? I live in Northeast Pennsylvania.

I took a leaf from the tree in my yard that I got the seed from to start the baby plant and I very curious as to why the leaves on the baby plant are 3 times the size of the parent? Please see attachments.

Any help with my many questions is greatly appreciated! Thanks for your time!

Shawn....here in Philadelphia

That's easy. The seedling is not an Eastern Redbud. I'm not sure what it is. Try listing it on the Plant ID Forum to find an answer.

Do you have Hollyhocks or okra in your yard?

Daisy

no redbud, DPL is correct of course.
Or Abutilon theophrasti?

If you have a mature redbud dropping seeds, keep a careful watch and you may find a true seedling somewhere. I get about one new one per year, others say they get lots.

First image clearly shows opposite arrangement of those big ol' leaves.

That should be the first clue to philadelphia1 that this isn't - and cannot be - a Redbud (Cercis canadensis) , which has alternate arrangement of leaves.

The seedling is Paulownia tomentosa, which unfortunately is a vigorous and aggressive invasive tree species in the eastern US. I would summarily destroy it when no one is looking.

You should be able to harvest seed from your Redbud this fall - maybe already. Take some pictures of this tree, and we can point out the actual seed. I don't know how you managed to sow a Paulownia tomentosa, unless its seed was present in the same pot by accident.

Look around for a (edits begin here) mature tree with those great big leaves. By this time of year (it flowers in spring), it will have set its large roundish array of seed pods.

That is likely the parent of your seedling.

This message was edited Aug 15, 2015 9:02 AM

for a .... ?

whatsa matter, VV... cat got your tongue?

I don't recall all of it. My memory of the event is, well, fuzzy...

I remember seizing on the old opposite vs. alternate saw, whilst sipping a German Riesling Kabinett.

Wonder if it was the cats, snatching me down from my high horse...

There should be loads of seed pods right now, on the Redbud that supplied that leaf

And they look like this: