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Hi, as you may realize, pines need to live outdoors year round, but JBP's need a more temperate climate than Minnesota's - it's just too cold there, but that has little to do with your new ones, which I believe you may have 'drowned'. Pines, even young ones to some extent, need gritty, coarse soil that drains very fast, and should only be watered when a fair amount of the soil they are in now (rather than the above) is dry, as opposed to being wet all the time. You've been killing them with kindness (you thought :-) but really probably doing it way too often.

26-Apr-2008	#3
Cathie bonsaiTALK Master Join Date: Apr-2006 Location: Z5b Posts: 432	Hi, as you may realize, pines need to live outdoors year round, but JBP's need a more temperate climate than Minnesota's - it's just too cold there, but that has little to do with your new ones, which I believe you may have 'drowned'. Pines, even young ones to some extent, need gritty, coarse soil that drains very fast, and should only be watered when a fair amount of the soil they are in now (rather than the above) is dry, as opposed to being wet all the time. You've been killing them with kindness (you thought :-) but really probably doing it way too often.