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    Ponderosa Pine Candle Health

    Because it's a newly collected and potted tree. I'll be backing off the watering now that it's growing again and moving it into full sun.
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    Ponderosa Pine Candle Health

    Here's what mine look like. It's been very warm and wet here so mine may have just taken off. It's in full shade and I've just been watering daily and spraying the foliage 2x a day.
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    Ponderosa Pine Candle Health

    I bought one from him this year too. When I first received it the new candles looked pale like that. They've since greened up and resumed growing in the past few weeks. How long have you had it?
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    Collected Ponderosa Pine Questions

    I'm pretty new to this also but I've cooked a few trees getting them out into full sun too early. I just bought a Ponderosa off Andy and he recommends waiting until needles on new candles on just collected and repotted trees are about 1" before getting them out into the sun.
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    east coaster looking for a palette of pumice

    Picked up some of Josh's pumice over the weekend. It looks really nice. Probably 100% useable material. It shouldn't need any screening. Looking forward to getting some stuff planted in it. Josh, thanks again. Here's a pic if anyone else is interested. He has tons (literally) of it. :)
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    Huge New Mugo

    Hey whatever works. Are you going double strength to 30-30-30? Every other week? I'm trying to understand how you got all those buds to pop. Though it might have more to do with what you did at the end of last year. Great job whatever you did!
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    Huge New Mugo

    How are you fertilizing this tree?
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    Best time to dig?

    I have several 10-20 y.o. Parson's and San Jose in the yard that I'd like to get into pots. When is the best time to dig? I've had both success and failure with early spring collecting. Michael Hagedorn mentions June as a time he likes to work on them. Is now a good time to collect them as well?
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    Tourniquets on bleeding branch stubs?

    I dug up a mugo this past weekend and reduced the top growth to balance the tree. (re. timing: was either take it now or lose it) So far, so good but there are now some branch stubs bleeding sap. Not planning to do anything else to it right now but is there any benefit to trying to pinch these...
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    Lighter spots on needles?

    evmibo, that looks exactly like what I have. I think it's the start of a fungus in my trees. I'm doing three treatments of the copper fungicide, two weeks apart to try and halt its spread, like october said covering the soil with plastic first. You may want to do the same as a preventative. I...
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    Lighter spots on needles?

    Thanks again. Hitting everything with the copper stuff today.
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    Lighter spots on needles?

    Thanks for the replies. This looks like it in the 2nd and 3rd pics: http://www.bonsaibasho.com/micromarket/#/library/library/a133 I think it is a needle cast. I had black bands on the needles of a JBP last year which I sprayed with Daconil that seemed to halt it then. Maybe it spread and these...
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    Lighter spots on needles?

    Yikes, there are no crusty white spots. I don't think it's scale. No tiny bugs either and the discoloration is within the needles. Any particular fungicide?
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    Lighter spots on needles?

    Not sure what this is. There are lighter spots along the length of the needles. It's on both an Austrian and Japanese Black Pine. Is it the beginnings of Brown Spot? What can I do? Daconil?
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    Older San Jose - chasing back growth

    Thanks for the tip Brian, that is exactly what I'm looking for. I'll give that a try. Glad to hear it's got potential as well! I am definitely going to let it grow more before I try anything. I'm not in a rush at all with this and do want to bring the growth much closer to the trunk before I...
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