malhomme

All but one of my JBPs went straight to needles, with copious back budding. Other members of our club have noticed the same odd behavior on their JBPs. These trees range from the very young to the very old.

Speaking for myself, my pines are very well fertilized and suffer nothing at all. The one pine that did candle was a JBP that had been in a shaded quarentine area for two years.

We had a warm and dry winter, so the general consensus is that the pines did not get enough chill hours. I don't exactly buy this, since it is not happening to all JBPs. I suspect that it is related to increased solar radiation, or candle-hours of light over winter, but this is just a hunch.

Cheers,
Jim