Hi mgkistler, maybe review some possible casues for the decline in your sapling, most common cause of failure/death of young trees is planting too deep, problems with water (too little, too much compacted soils temperature extremes) poor nursery stock.
Ekka's right with very young trees it is possible to salvage them even when major problems arise.
__________________ Sean Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
- Kahlil Gibran |