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Old 07-01-2013, 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by zuhayr-123 View Post
id love to plant the pine into the ground but i just dont have enough space, because we need a practical kind of garden too as opposed to a no-nonsense planted garden. ill again change the compost for more rich compost and maybe some manuere ?
Don't waste your time: that will probably kill it off. The underlying problem is that the water capacity of the soil in the container is not sufficient to support a pine of that size. To keep going, either you must increase the size of the container, or else you must employ labour-intensive and skillful bonsai techniques to reduce the size of the plant and restrict its growth.

If you are not willing to employ those skillful labour-intensive techniques, or increase the container size, then the time has come to realise that some plants won't live for ever in containers. So throw it away, and buy a new plant, preferably one more suited to container cultivation.