The āshortenedā needles next to the longer brown ones look chewed. Look at the first image on the upper left of the new shoot and you can see a couple needles only partially damaged, but it looks like material has been removed. Not the typical banding color from dothistroma. Iāve had the occasional wayward caterpillar/larvae chew on some needles like this.I wonder if it could be physical damage?
SO_____What is the treatment, or is there any? I do not believe the problem is a disease. If you look at each individual needle they appear to be broken. This is an easy thing to do in the early spring by brushing against the needles in the opposite direction of growth. They are crisp like and break easily.another thing causing browning of needles starting at tips is called "dothistroma blight" . This pic is from google images but from the oklahoma state university website about dothistroma.
Yeah that doesn't sound like a disease to me eitherSO_____What is the treatment, or is there any? I do not believe the problem is a disease. If you look at each individual needle they appear to be broken. This is an easy thing to do in the early spring by brushing against the needles in the opposite direction of growth. They are crisp like and break easily.