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Some of the lower branches are sagging quite a bit and looking not so great.. Should I be cutting them off? It looks almost like about 60% of the top of the tree is still alive with nice color, but some of the bottom branches are turning mushy and sagging.. most still have nicely colored pins at...

The yellowing seems to have stopped expanding, we got the tree for free so we couldn't really pick a time. When we dug it up we put the ball in a garbage bag and sprayed some water to keep it moist, when we planted it, it will still moist. Is it ok to keep watering every day? The root doesn't...

I transplanted a pine tree(coming from 2 hours north of here), about 4 feet tall, it looks like a Christmas tree.. about a week has passed and some needles are turning yellow. How much should I water it? Its very hot here, has been 30C some days, in Toronto.. Also, I pressed down the soil quite...

Is there anything I can do?.. Some soapy kind of spray or something that might help? I don't want to use toxic stuff. Would adding more compost help strengthen it against these things?

The tree is also covered with little green bugs that fell on me while I was taking pictures. Even one brown one.

Ok here are some more pictures. In Bark10.jpg, I scraped off the hard black stuff.. It looks like it doesn't go deep at all, and it can be just scraped off.. but it's all over the tree, even on live branches. I did have mulch at the bottom, is this bad? Maybe I should dig around it to bring it...

Here in Ontario Canada we are not allowed to buy any strong herbicides for weeds. The WeedMan sprays Fiesta on people's lawns who pay for it... but not too many do, because it's expensive. http://www.fiestaweedkiller.com/ Could that do anything to trees? I am surprised that once I started...

Many tips of my tree are losing leaves. I cut them and attached a photo of the affected branches. They have hard black spots on them. I don't know anything about trees, not even the type of tree this is or what the black spots are. What can I do? The leaves on the tips are coming out a little...