Vance Wood

I agree, you don't go scratching for green if you still have a healthy green you can see. Pines do lose needles every year, usually three year old needles, sometimes two year old needles. Sometimes they get a disease called Needle cast but this is not usually fatal and affect only older needles.

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The only finished bonsai is a dead one; me 1992 MABA Des Moines Iowa