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My experience is that if pines are going to die from the collecting itself, all the needles turn yellow pretty fast. Your tree looks quite healthy to me. The length of the needles say a lot about how much water the tree is able to absorb, so if the needles get long this year the roots are probably fine. I've collected pines that never seemed to wake up from dormancy and all the buds dried up and died. In the autumn new buds came along though and that particular tree is still alive, albeit weak. I totally agree though that it seems a bit irresponsible to sell trees so soon after collecting...

23-Jun-2007	#4
Mindcrime Swede Join Date: May-2005 Location: Umea Country: Sweden USDA Zone: 3b AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 286	My experience is that if pines are going to die from the collecting itself, all the needles turn yellow pretty fast. Your tree looks quite healthy to me. The length of the needles say a lot about how much water the tree is able to absorb, so if the needles get long this year the roots are probably fine. I've collected pines that never seemed to wake up from dormancy and all the buds dried up and died. In the autumn new buds came along though and that particular tree is still alive, albeit weak. I totally agree though that it seems a bit irresponsible to sell trees so soon after collecting... __________________ Less is a bore...