Ok, folks, here is one for educational purposes!
My beautiful Formal Upright JBP nearly died. It was out in California for two summers where it experienced two summers of extreme heat and fungus.
I was able to get it home last fall. But when I got it, most of the needles were “burnt”. Many were brown, some had some green, but were also yellow and brown. Some were red tipped! The tree literally looked as if it were in a fire!
My theory is it was damaged by
A combination of bad water, high heat, and needle blight brought on by excess w
After in an attempt to overcome the heat!
So, when it came home I treated it with copper fungicide, and Bonide Infuse Systemic Granular Fungicide.
Over the winter, it didn’t “improve”, but it kept what little foliage it had. In spring, it started weakly sending out new shoots. I removed the totally brown needles.
Then, in April, we got hit with a late hard frost! That zapped the new shoots!
I was afraid I was going to lose the tree.
I fertilized with my normal fertilizer in spring, but at a lower than usual dose. The tree is weak, I don’t want to give it a heavy dose.
I gave it another treatment of fungicide.
The old needles have been slowly dying off. It looks horrible.
Looks dead, doesn’t it?
Heart breaking!
This tree used to be fabulous! In fact, a couple of years ago, I was planning to take it to the Nationals this year!
Here’s a picture of what it used to look like:
And that picture was taken just after decandling, so it would be much fuller!
But…
It has been back budding! I think it’s going to recover.
Here, you can see some of how it’s back budding:
It’s doing that all over. Tons of little weak buds all over the tree. If it survives, (and it’s still an “if”), it will be better than ever since it will have all these little branches closer to the trunk!
This JBP is about 100 years old. It’s an import. Imported about 30 years ago, I’ve owned it for about 6 years. It’s the best Formal Upright JBP I’ve ever seen, and I hope it pulls thru.
My beautiful Formal Upright JBP nearly died. It was out in California for two summers where it experienced two summers of extreme heat and fungus.
I was able to get it home last fall. But when I got it, most of the needles were “burnt”. Many were brown, some had some green, but were also yellow and brown. Some were red tipped! The tree literally looked as if it were in a fire!
My theory is it was damaged by
A combination of bad water, high heat, and needle blight brought on by excess w
After in an attempt to overcome the heat!
So, when it came home I treated it with copper fungicide, and Bonide Infuse Systemic Granular Fungicide.
Over the winter, it didn’t “improve”, but it kept what little foliage it had. In spring, it started weakly sending out new shoots. I removed the totally brown needles.
Then, in April, we got hit with a late hard frost! That zapped the new shoots!
I was afraid I was going to lose the tree.
I fertilized with my normal fertilizer in spring, but at a lower than usual dose. The tree is weak, I don’t want to give it a heavy dose.
I gave it another treatment of fungicide.
The old needles have been slowly dying off. It looks horrible.
Looks dead, doesn’t it?
Heart breaking!
This tree used to be fabulous! In fact, a couple of years ago, I was planning to take it to the Nationals this year!
Here’s a picture of what it used to look like:
And that picture was taken just after decandling, so it would be much fuller!
But…
It has been back budding! I think it’s going to recover.
Here, you can see some of how it’s back budding:
It’s doing that all over. Tons of little weak buds all over the tree. If it survives, (and it’s still an “if”), it will be better than ever since it will have all these little branches closer to the trunk!
This JBP is about 100 years old. It’s an import. Imported about 30 years ago, I’ve owned it for about 6 years. It’s the best Formal Upright JBP I’ve ever seen, and I hope it pulls thru.
