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Merle, this may be Needle Rust. Look at the Georgia Cooperative Extension site to see if you can find your tree's problem.

-- Contributed by: Kathleen Roberts

Mary, this could be a fungus called needle cast. You will need to take a sample to your Extension Office to be sure, but if it is you will need to use a fungicide to stop it.

-- Contributed by: Kathleen Roberts

My husband was able to transplant some small pines. now after about maybe two months. he is seeing yellow branches. so far its not all the branches. can you give him some idea what to do

-- Contributed by: Mary

I got very little info from a Conservation rep but have some kind of disease (maybe fungus) on two trees --- believed to beNorthern Pine. The needles are about one-half inch long, and one tree seems 75% dead with brown needles. A companion tree has treewide scattered dead needles, and ooze about 3' from the trunk upward about 3 feet. The ooze has mostly hardened and looks like milk- white dried fungus. What is it? Can it be treated and the spread stopped? There are nine trees in a row used as a windbreak/privacy, and assumed to be 12 or more years old.

-- Contributed by: Merle Truitt

White pines are very susceptible to root rot. It is caused by poor drainage. There is nothing you can do to save the trees you have, but you should consider planting something that will do better in the soil you have.

You could also gradually amend your soil to improve drainage, but I doubt white pines will ever thrive there.

-- Contributed by: Kathleen Roberts

3 white mature white pines are dying at ground level. one blew over showing healthy wood in center but dead around outside. Tree service said its stump rot. Can't find any such thing on internet.

-- Contributed by: ROBERT

You may have a problem with pine bark beetles. If this is the case, you will need to remove the trees. Contact your local extension office as see if someone will come out and take a look.

-- Contributed by: Kathleen Roberts

I have three mature pine trees, approximently 10 years old in my back yard. Two have an excess of sap running down their trunks. The needles seem generally healthy although there are some dead ones closer to the bottom of the trees. What does this sap production mean? Thank you.

-- Contributed by: P. Connor
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