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Professional Amateur
Join Date: Feb-2005
Location: Arkansas
Country: USA
Posts: 2,619
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Hi,
To show that repotting does work, and that roots are the first place to look when you have a sickly black pine, I am posting a picture.
This pine was completely yellow with dark needle tips when i acquired it in 2005. I repotted it in February. When removed from the pot, the soil was a decomposed peat and sand muck, that resuted in very few roots, in fact no roots protruded beyond the bottom of the rock. It was repotted into a rapidly draining relatively coarse mix of akadma, hyuga and volcanic rock. The top of the soil was covered with a light layer of long fibered spagnum moss for the first few months. We did the first cycle of decandling and needle control this summer.
John
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