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Mugho pine dying
A couple of weeks ago I bought a small mugho pine intending to keep it
in a pot on my deck. I potted it with Miracle Gro potting soil, and it has been steadily turning brown ever since. It's on a south-facing deck, along with my container garden, and gets plenty of sun and regular watering. Today I got some Miracle Gro for azaleas and other acid-loving plants on the hunch that maybe the potting soil wasn't acidic enough. Any other ideas? |
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Mugho pine dying
On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:25:12 -0400 in Richard Evans wrote:
A couple of weeks ago I bought a small mugho pine intending to keep it in a pot on my deck. I potted it with Miracle Gro potting soil, and it has been steadily turning brown ever since. It's on a south-facing deck, along with my container garden, and gets plenty of sun and regular watering. Today I got some Miracle Gro for azaleas and other acid-loving plants on the hunch that maybe the potting soil wasn't acidic enough. Any other ideas? Well you might look at... http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mugo+pine+soil&l=1 Liz and i will probably kill another mugo pine in our front yard this year. The spot Liz wanted it was one of the few pockets of clay in the front yard and it doesn't drain well enough. The other problem is that mugos are hardy zones 2-7. A lot of NC is zone 7b and itching to be zone 8 the next time the USDA crunches the numbers. Or in simpler words, too damn hot. And you're probably over fertilizing the tree. -- Chris Dukes |
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Mugho pine dying
On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:27:57 -0400 in Richard Evans wrote:
wrote: And you're probably over fertilizing the tree. I fertilized it for the first time yesterday and it was well on its way to dead by then. Miracle Grow Potting Soil == Lots of Fertilizer And don't fertilize (with nitrogen at least) when the plant is not doing well. -- Chris Dukes |
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It's too hot in NC for some evergreens including Mugo. If it started to decline there is no way you can save it.
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Mugho pine dying
On Jul 7, 9:25*pm, Richard Evans wrote:
A couple of weeks ago I bought a small mugho pine intending to keep it in a pot on my deck. I potted it with Miracle Gro potting soil, and it has been steadily turning brown ever since. It's on a south-facing deck, along with my container garden, and gets plenty of sun and regular watering. Today I got some Miracle Gro for azaleas and other acid-loving plants on the hunch that maybe the potting soil wasn't acidic enough. Any other ideas? Define regular watering? Turning brown can be a sign you are over watering it, or perhaps the drain holes are plugged and it is drowning. I killed one Dwarf Alberta Spruce because I did not know the drain holes were plugged. It took less than a week of heavy rain a few years ago to kill it. We have a dwarf Alberta Spruce that I repotted because it was root bound and it is still struggling. Two we have in the ground are doing well. I may have to find a sunny place in the yard and get it out of the pot. The problem is we are running out of sunny places in the yard to replant such things. I may take it to SC and see how it will live down there. |
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