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Posted by tollinge x6KY (My Page) on Tue, Sep 26, 06 at 12:48
| I have three Japanese Black Pine that are growing in flower pots. These are my first attempts at Bonsai. all I did was grow them outside, dig them and put them in the pots in garden soil spring of 2005. They did fine last summer and over the winter. I plant to re-pot in the spring of next year. What has started to happen this summer is the needles on the tips of the new growth are dying and the tips are covered with sap. The rest of the trees look very healthy, nice dark green needles etc. Can anyone offer a suggestion as to what is causing the tips to die? And what I can do to help the trees? |
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RE: Help with Black Pines
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| If you can't see any bugs at all, then possibly watering is the problem - pines like to get pretty dry between waterings, and if your weather's been rainy, and the soil is not gritty and fast draining, that could be the answer. Did the 'garden' soil have lots of grit, sandy loam, etc. in there, or was it peaty, with possibly lots of clay? |
RE: Help with Black Pines
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| It has been rainy lately. The garden soil was free draining originally, but in the course of the last 17 monthes it has become compacted and fairly slow draining. I plan to re-pot in spring, would it be a good idea to re-pot now, with frost this weekend and freezes about a month away? |
RE: Help with Black Pines
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| Actually, not at this point, just don't water any more, or only if things end up being so dry most of its soil dries out, but that seems pretty unlikely. You need more info. long term tho', so www.evergreengardenworks.com/articles will take you to a great website for lots of bonsai stuff, and excellent info on blk. pines. |
RE: Help with Black Pines
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| There is a possibility that you have a bug. I cannot now remember the official name for the thing but it bores into the buds of pines and lays an egg or two. Remove one of the affected buds and carefully pull it apart to see if you can find the offending little creature. Sometimes you can actually find the hole drilled into the bud if you look carefully. If you do it is recommended that your remove all of the affected growth down to healthy needles. This will of course cause a lot of back budding in the spring |
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