Little help with Thunderhead

[Maiden69]

Guys,

My thunderhead is getting pale, could this be dehydration? I moved it into a more sunny are of the patio, barely 4-5 hours a day though but the sun hit the top of the soil. It was very dark green when I moved it about a month ago. I water them in the morning around 4 am, and like the other pines I only water it once a day. Today I water all the trees around 8 so the sun was up and noticed the change in needle color.

I moved it into the middle of the patio where it will get some sunlight but the soil will be in shade and will try to water twice to see if that helps is. Do anyone have any experience like this? This was one of my strongest growing pines and I am kinda baffled by its deterioration.

 

[Ruddigger]

That thing looks way dead. I would guess it dried out. JBP love full sun year round, mine are never in shade, but I water two or three times per day.

 

[shohin_branches]

Did you get any new growth on it this year? I'm not seeing any new candles extending in these photos just old dead buds

 

[namnhi]

Am afraid it is done.

 

[namnhi]

Sorry

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

I'm hoping it's sunburn, which pines can get but overcoming it is difficult because all the foliage is essentially toast, but my honest guess is total root death.

 

[namnhi]

I'm hoping it's sunburn, which pines can get but overcoming it is difficult because all the foliage is essentially toast, but my honest guess is total root death.

Sun doesn't burn interior needles... all the way to the base.

 

[Eckhoffw]

Shoot! Have you checked for pests?

 

[rockm]

Whatever happened to this tree, it wasn't insects. It's uniform color all over the tree indicates to me anyway, that it had some kind of shock--an afternoon or a couple of days of underwatering, sudden dryness plus heat, etc.

 

[Eckhoffw]

Whatever happened to this tree, it wasn't insects. It's uniform color all over the tree indicates to me anyway, that it had some kind of shock--an afternoon or a couple of days of underwatering, sudden dryness plus heat, etc.

Yeah, that would make more sense.

 

[Maiden69]

That thing looks way dead. I would guess it dried out. JBP love full sun year round, mine are never in shade, but I water two or three times per day.

This year I had no choice, I'm at an apartment while the house gets built. I have all the pines in the edge of the patio which is the only place that gets direct sun for a few hours in the afternoon.

Did you get any new growth on it this year? I'm not seeing any new candles extending in these photos just old dead buds

Now that you mention that I don't see any buds, so this may have been the 2 days of teens we had in mid December. I did placed a large frost blanket around the trees, but I guess that was not enough. Weird that it was still full green by the end of May.

I'm hoping it's sunburn, which pines can get but overcoming it is difficult because all the foliage is essentially toast, but my honest guess is total root death.

No sunburn, this tree used to get full sun with no shade as all my JBPs in my house including 100+ degree days. Never had an issue with them.

Am afraid it is done. Sorry

No worries, I have lost so many trees this winter that I'm at a stage that I don't care. Just trying to keep the few ones I have left alive until we finally move into the house.

Whatever happened to this tree, it wasn't insects. It's uniform color all over the tree indicates to me anyway, that it had some kind of shock--an afternoon or a couple of days of underwatering, sudden dryness plus heat, etc.

Yeah, first thing I did was look for insects near the base of the trunk as it was all uniform... nothing was found which led me to belief it was probably root or nutrition related. As I said above, I think this was a casualty of the freeze we had. I thought it was fine because it remained dark green for so long, but I guess it was because it was very healthy going into winter.