A week ago I planted a hedge of 26 plants, including 3 Red Robin. The rest of the plants are looking fine, but the Red Robins aren't looking too pretty. When they arrived in pots 2 weeks ago they didn't look the healthiest (some wilting, some leaves browning), but they are looking worse now. They arrived covered in anaerobic mulch (it stunk like sour milk and was a solid disc), which I've cleaned off.
by mutantrobotclone
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I think It’ll be ok, I’m guessing its had a bit of a knock between posting,drying,transplanting etc.
See how it goes, I’d think it should improve once its found its feet.
You could take back a bit of the soft/red growth if needed.
Remove em for something else… they’re pretty inert in the UK anyway
Unfortunately Photinia ‘Red robin’ is a really bad cultivar in spite of it’s popularity. It gets leggy and is incredibly prone to picking up diseases on its leaves and chances are it’ll drop more leaves before it settles in the spot. A far nicer cultivar is ‘Carre Rouge’ but it’s probably too late to go with that.