My family has had this star pine for going on 26 years now. I'm only 29, so I've basically grown up with this plant.
8 months ago, it started dropping from fronds, and after probing the soil, I found it was pretty badly root constricted, which made sense as he hadn't upgraded its pot in nearly a decade. So we repotted it to the largest pot we could get ahold of. It did pretty well after that, then all of a sudden, over the last 2 months it has lost nearly 70% of its branches, dropping entire branches instead of single fronds.
Any advice? From my research this is a pretty old plant for its species, and I'm unsure if there's anything that can be done.
by TheUnfunOwl
3 Comments
Could be transplant shock hitting hard after the repotting – sometimes they take months to show stress and dropping whole branches is usually a sign the roots are still struggling to adjust to the new environment.
I find it incredible a pine lasted indoors at all. 29 years is a hell of a run
Isn’t this an outside plant? Bigger pot probably too long overdue