SOBs, some help please with tardy JBP

4-May-2006	#1
pootsie The Cat's Apprentice *MODERATOR GROUP* Join Date: May-2004 Location: Columbus o-HI-o Country: USofA USDA Zone: 6 AHS Heat Zone: 5 Posts: 3,065	SOBs, some help please with tardy JBP My Japanese Black Pine is behaving badly. It has plenty of strong green needles from last year, but no new growth. It pushed out some candles last summer, but they stopped half-way and never developed needles. Nothing new has appeared this year. Wazzup wit dat? tanx, pootsie __________________ p.s. My cat is a bonsaiTALK Master. Columbus Bonsai Society

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4-May-2006	#2
boon bonsaiTALK Journeyman Join Date: Oct-2004 Posts: 19	There are several reasons. It probably was decandled too late, not enough fertilizer, stayed too cold in winter and or poor soil. Did you repot it? If the new candle grow, leave it along this year. Good luck, Boon

5-May-2006	#3
pootsie The Cat's Apprentice *MODERATOR GROUP* Join Date: May-2004 Location: Columbus o-HI-o Country: USofA USDA Zone: 6 AHS Heat Zone: 5 Posts: 3,065	Thanks, Boon. It has not been repotted. I gave it some fertilizer last year (osmocote) and didn't de-candle. Because I was new to the area, the winter treatment I had used in my old location was not sufficient, but I didn't learn that until late in the winter. I'll just let it be for now, I guess. pootsie __________________ p.s. My cat is a bonsaiTALK Master. Columbus Bonsai Society

5-May-2006	#4
Alasdair bonsaiTALK Master Chief Join Date: Aug-2004 Location: Aberystwyth Uni Country: Wales USDA Zone: 8 AHS Heat Zone: 0-1 Posts: 1,101	Think yourself lucky pootsie, my mugo isn't pushing any new growth either. Might be the fact that it's dead though... Al __________________ I can feel another "I wish that was my tree" moment coming on... Currently studying BSc Plant Biology at the Universty of Wales, Aberystwyth

19-Jul-2006

rschlafer

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Alasdair

Think yourself lucky pootsie, my mugo isn't pushing any new growth either. Might be the fact that it's dead though...

I'm sorry about you Mugo

....but that statement made me laugh.

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19-Jul-2006	#6
Mcspeed bonsaiTALK Master Chief Join Date: Mar-2006 Location: West Springfield Massachusetts Country: USA USDA Zone: zone 5 AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 1,203	a ressurected thread. May have been that deficient winter care took the new buds, hopefully you are seeing some growth by now. By all means though go on a more aggressive fert. schedule than , last year I fertilized. How is that pine doing now?

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