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Alex got this tree last year for Earth day. It was the first tree we ever planted, & it's been doing great. However, when our shed was delivered, the driver had no other recourse but to drive over it. It got bent over, but didn't look toooooo bad, at first. It has one "booboo" on the trunk. But, it's starting to go brown all over the needles all of a sudden. I don't know if it's in shock, or if it's dying, or what. Here's a photo of it now..
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it could possibly be shock.I'd keep it watered and mulch it a lil for moisture retention and maybe it'll swing through. If the earth day thing was through arbor foundation they will replace trees the 1st year if something happens.When they get planted the 1st few years they are setting their tap root down deep.then when its set...it starts to grow upwards.
oh...and some stuff like small breaks can heal over.I know its not all trees& can't rember if pine was one of them.....I know my oak is one.
* * * * I will age ungracefully until I become an old woman in a small garden..doing whatever the Hell I want!
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No, it wasn't one of our ADF trees. It was given to her from the FFA at school.. older kids had bagged them up for the elementry kids to take home & plant a tree. It's a loblolly pine tree. Anyways, I will keep it watered & just keep an eye on it. The damage didn't look all that bad.. but the sudden browning.. well, that didn't look so good.
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Put an umbrella or something to shade it.. And give it a splash or foliar feed of some fertlizer with a high middle number... Do it early in the morning, and put the umbrella up..
If it's hot and sunny on it, it's hard to heal yourself up if you were hot and tired.. and hurt...
Give the fertilizer everyother day.. light solution..
May help the shock..
* * * * Weezie
Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2
Liquid to be able to do a foliar feed.. (or the powder/crystal kind you put into water)
When a plant is planted, uprooted, shocked, etc... it's temporarily lost it's ability to take up nutrients thru it's regular means...
What you do is mix up the solution into a gallon watering can, or a sprayer and water the leaves/plant and it absorbes nutrients thru it's leaves until it can get back to better health....
I like the Schultz Plus, 10~60~10.... but anything with a higher middle and or last number..
* * * * Weezie
Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2
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The umbrella is for the heat.... Just keep it so it's not getting too hot...
Think of yourself if you were just run over by a big heavy truck and you were left there with some injuries, not life threatening, but were just left there to recover in the HOT/HUMID conditions of the days past while injuried...Unable to get something to drink or eat... You'd be pretty cranky yourself... *I know I would be..*
* * * * Weezie
Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2
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okie dokie. I'll run out today to get something liquid with the higher middle number. Spray directly on the tree/branches, check.
Thanks weezie. I know if it lives, it'll be because of your help. If not, it's just because I maybe didn't act fast enough. *fingers crossed*
I did tell Alex I'd get her another tree if this one didn't make it. I'm thinking of a different kind of pine tho.. (I'm not really crazy about the shape of the loblolly pines when they are grown.)
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