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Sat, Dec 1, 12 at 10:28
| What is causing stunted growth and brown needles on this pine and others in our area. Thanks for your help. Carol |
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| One of the needlecast fungi, not sure which. I'd be thinking about replacing it with a new plant. Resin |
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- Posted by akamainegrower none (My Page) on Sun, Dec 2, 12 at 6:09
| Perhaps a fungal infection, but given the location of the damage and the plant species involved, I'd bet on pine shoot moth. |
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| Thank you for the replies. I have only one of these pines while a neighbor has many so for her replacing them would be very costly. Here's another photo of my plant. |
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| I had 4-5 under-around a Japanese maple in my front yard. They wre looking ratty (much more so than yours) and after taking the Maddox to one to yank it out and seeing how much work that was, I decided a bag if charcoal on each pine would suffice! I let them burn/smolder for a few hours and now all that remains are the charred stumps. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Wed, Dec 5, 12 at 7:36
| pines have no dormant buds .. if you cut all the green off .. they are dead .. so you could have just cut them to ground level.. and have been done with them .. they will not sprout from the roots ... perhaps avoiding.. setting the house on fire.. if they are foundation plantings ... lol the bag of charcoal.. is interesting.. such a simple idea of how to burn a stump ... never even crossed my mind ... but then i dont burn stumps ... ken |
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| No worries they were in a lava rock bed. They had been there for 20+ years and the one root ball I actually extracted was from the smallest one. I wanted no part in doing that again 4x's over. |
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| Though I did singe a bit of the perimeter of the maple they were under! I just trimmed back to live stem a few months later. Well see how she fills back in this spring. Ill bet by June there will be nothing left of the singeing! |
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