Is this White Pine healthy?

Daksund

First off, I live in northern Vermont, New England, in between climate zones 3 and 4. I have recently transplanted two eastern white pine into my front yard - both from less than 200 yards away. I did this in late August, and recently have noticed some needles, mostly the interior ones, are turning yellow/brown. Here are some photographs:

First white pine specimen, over 6 feet tall -

It's needles/leaves -


Second white pine specimen, shorter and more unsightly; I may replace this spring -

It's foliage -

I also have a question regarding a tree I planted - It looks like a hemlock, can anyone confirm? Two images of it:


All of these trees were acquired less than a mile from my home, if that is important. Thanks for the help in advance.

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Eden Keeper

The white pines look fine since it is normal for the oldest needles to turn and drop in this pattern. Just check to make sure the support stakes are not rubbing the bark off any of the trees; it would be better to loosely tie saplings from 3 sides with a soft material so it could still sway without touching any stakes. An eastern hemlock, Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carrière, will have a pair of white stripes on the underside the leaves. Mulch in a doughnut shape (3 inches thick at most, 3 feet in diameter, and with a hole 1 foot across thus not piled against the trunk) will help stabilize the soil moisture and temperature; this is about 1.57 cubic feet (44.48 liters) of mulch per tree.

Daksund

Ok, I was thinking that it might just be a seasonal thing. I have a few other trees that I would like identified - I'll post that in the proper section in a few minutes.

MoDirt

mulch,mulch,mulch,water,water,water

If it was me I would not become to attached to the Hemlock or I might find it a little more shade.

Brent Ferris

The third tree looks more like a balsam fir (Abies balsamea) than a hemlock - the needles are too long for hemlock and too sparse, and the growth looks too rapid.

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Daksund

I don't have any mulch, but have a big bag of soil fertilizer; would that do?

And yes, I don't really like the way hemlock looks in general - I might replace it with a white pine or Norway spruce next spring.

Looking underneath the needles, I could see two thin white stripes - so it seems to be hemlock.

Brent Ferris

Absolutely NOT. Fertilizer will kill the tree in that quantity. No mulch? - so, no leaves, decayed sawdust, chips, gravel, pine needles etc. A lot of things can act well as a mulch - fertilizer isn't one of them.

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