g'day mates! i recently dug up a stone pine from the forest near me. i must have been slightly barbaric as the tree is dying :/ is there some miraculous way i can help it to survive? (if not, i can just buy a scraggly juniper from the nursery and wrap it around the skeleton, to sort of cheat.)

sorry for the bad quality, i had to take the picture on my webcam :/

No. This plant died when you pulled it out of the ground.

cranny wrote:

g'day mates! i recently dug up a stone pine from the forest near me. i must have been slightly barbaric as the tree is dying

No, it's not dying.

It's dead.

shouldn't it have looked dead long before now though? i dug it up about 3 months ago

no. pines, juniper etc can stay green for weeks to months after loosing the roots as long as they don't dry out. Think christmas tree.

cranny wrote:

shouldn't it have looked dead long before now though? i dug it up about 3 months ago

Thats the problem with pines ( and all conifers for that matter): it takes ages to see something is wrong and when you do its usually too late!!.
Its a pitty this one died, had some potential...
So: before you go and collect and kill another one, take the time to learn some horticultural basics ( how and when to collect /repot plants, which ones to bareroot or not, aftercare,...) A free lesson: never dig up a plant and put wire around it at the same time. Dig up, let it recover for a ( few) year(s), then wire

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