Pine trees keep dying

 

Hi

I have (or had) five pine trees (and another 20 as a fence).  Two years
ago one of the pine tree's leaves started to go brown and then 6months
later was completly dead (it was around apx 10-12 years old), I then
chopped it down.  Then last year the one next to it did the same thing
and yet again it is dead.  I have two others next to it but, touch wood
(forgive the pun), they are OK.
An additional fact is that squirals have nexted in them, but squirrals
have been around for years as I live backed on to a park.

The tree up to and at the point of dying look ok.  Bark was find not
signs of mold/fungus.  However, after one did hugh amounts of scary
looking mushrooms grew.

Can anyone suggest what may be causing this?

WayneL

 

I have seen a lot of pines die like that, but they had pine tree borers or
flat head borers.  If you cut your dead trees up, did you see any signs of
damage caused to the tree under the bark?

If that is the problem we treat it two ways.  Spray the tree in the spring
before the borers get into it, and put a systemic borer killer on the ground
and water it in.  Then it is taken up through the roots and kills the borers
already there.

Have you done a soil test around the trees?  I don't know what they need but
that might be a good place to start If you  dont have borers.

Dwayne (from Kansas)

 


WAYNEL wrote:

It's possible it could be honey fungus, though I don't know if that
attacks conifers.  Did the mushroom things smell of honey because
that's a sure sign?   It spreads with things that look like long black
bootlaces under the grass.  This link will show you photographs of the
fungus and the 'bootlaces'
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=honey+fungus&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery
South Devon

 



Do you have a good relationship with your neighbours?

Is it possible the trees could have been poisoned?