What could be causing this yellowing of tips and small buds dying? Repotted the pine in April and haven’t done anything to it since besides remove brown needles and fertilizing. Also is now a good time to cut back to 2 buds after the repot this year?
by game399
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You mentioned repotting, but is it a new tree to you? Have you had it through winter yet?
I have a mugo pine that has recently started to turn yellow at the tips. I was getting worried until I remembered that I bought a “wintergold” variety last spring. It is supposed to color change when the temperature drops. You might have a Scots pine that with a similar trait.
Often it’s from over-watering
Did you leave enough original soil with mycorrhizae on the rootball?
sometimes they look slightly anemic as they go through winter. its important to not over or underwater it. just treat the tree like normal. do not cut anything
Get the tree healthy before you cut anything off.
Yellowing needles usually indicates root disease.
Try watering your tree less if you have been watering a lot. During dormancy we don’t water often.
So the answers from this thread are –
Over watering
Under watering
It may be the variety (it’s fine)
You didn’t repot it right
Peak Reddit right there 🤣
You clear on the cause and next steps now, OP?