Question: The tip of my jack pine, probably 5 years old, had been broken but not severed from the tree. It was hanging, still half attached. Is there some way to repair the tree tip so it can perhaps ...

Not every pine that has dead needles is infected with diplodia tip blight. “It’s normal for pine trees and other evergreens to lose some of their oldest needles every fall,” Yiesla said.

Do you have a mature pine tree with bunches of brown needles? It may be suffering from a fungal disease called diplodia tip blight. “Diplodia has become more common due to environmental stress ...