{"id":1694,"date":"2011-10-25T22:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T02:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2011-10-25T21:52:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T01:52:29","slug":"autumn-evergreen-needle-drop-is-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/10\/25\/autumn-evergreen-needle-drop-is-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Evergreen Needle Drop in Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2095\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_3792.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2095\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2095\" title=\"IMG_3792\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_3792-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_3792-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_3792-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natural Needle Fall in Pine in October<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some needle loss on evergreens in the fall is natural. As night time temperatures cool, needles in the interior of\u00a0many evergreen trees or shrubs regularly turn\u00a0brown (or golden yellow)\u00a0and drop off. Needle loss is most obvious on pines (<em>Pinus spp.<\/em>) and arborvitae (<em>Thuja spp<\/em>.) in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7).<\/p>\n<p>The numbers of needles\u00a0shed may vary from one year to the next.\u00a0Unusually high needle losses may be a reaction to high summer heat and extended dry periods within the geographical area where you live.<\/p>\n<p>Loss of\u00a0two year\u00a0and older needles\u00a0is natural. Loss of current season and last year&#8217;s needles is painfully not a good thing and may be caused by a disease or insect pest. Roots of evergreens may contract a root disease such as pythium and phytophthora fungi. Often, a root disease may be fatal or the pesticide treatment(s) very costly.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental and transplanting stresses may be the cause. Winter desiccation and de-icing salts can turn evergreens brown. Needle losses are usually higher on newly planted evergreens.<\/p>\n<p>Weekly deep\u00a0watering in\u00a0the fall and late winter fertilizing of evergreens helps relieve transplant stress. Transplant shock (heavy needle loss) should not re-occur the following fall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> More on fall-winter care of evergreens coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some needle loss on evergreens in the fall is natural. As night time temperatures cool, needles in the interior of\u00a0many evergreen trees or shrubs regularly turn\u00a0brown (or golden yellow)\u00a0and drop off. Needle loss is most obvious on pines (Pinus spp.) and arborvitae (Thuja spp.) in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7). The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[809,806,665,774,808,630,646,767,231,162],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}