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Give your pine tree supplemental nutrients when its soil needs them with our liquid Pine Tree Fertilizer. The 3.6-3-5.1 formula mixes with water for feeding around the root zone of pines in the landscape or large containers. It supports healthy new needle and shoot growth without making feeding an automatic step for every established tree.
Your pine's needles and annual shoot growth can help you judge whether it's growing normally. Healthy pines in suitable soil often don't need routine feeding. If your tree's newest needles are unusually short or new growth stays weak, a soil test can help determine whether nutrients are actually limiting it.
Worried about yellow needles? Older inner needles naturally yellow and shed, often in fall, while browning on branch tips or whole limbs may signal drought, insects, disease, or root stress. Pine tree food cannot turn dead needles green or reverse those underlying problems.
Our liquid fertilizer makes measured root-zone feeding simple when a nutrient need is confirmed. Avoid relying on fertilizer as a treatment for recently transplanted, drought-stressed, or diseased pines; proper watering and diagnosis take priority.
Why growers choose it: Liquid 3.6-3-5.1 nutrition for pines when needed, convenient root-zone application, and straightforward measuring.
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Normal fall shedding of older pine needles is not a fertilizer deficiency. Don't feed a healthy pine simply because its inner needles turn yellow seasonally.
Feeds foliage for deeper color and a brighter, more lively look.
Encourages fresh leaf and stem growth for a fuller, thriving plant.
Supports healthy, resilient roots that absorb nutrients more effectively.
Watering can
2 Tbs (30 mL) per gallon of water
Spring & summer: every 1–2 weeks · Fall & winter: every 4 weeks
Hose end sprayer
Set dial to 1 oz (30 mL) setting
Spring & summer: every 1–2 weeks
Leaf misting (optional)
1 tsp per quart (32 oz) of water
Every 1–2 weeks
Full sun, six hours or more. Pines make poor shade plants, and the lower branches of a crowded tree thin out and die back as the canopy closes.
Water young pines deeply every week or two through their first two summers. Established pines rarely need watering except in long droughts, and dislike constantly wet soil.
Sandy or loamy, sharply draining soil, slightly acidic at pH 5.5 to 6.5. Heavy, waterlogged clay is the most common reason a young pine fails.
Feed Pine Tree Fertilizer every two weeks in spring and summer and about once a month through fall and winter, watered in over the root zone.
For denser growth, shorten the new spring candles by half before the needles open. Cuts into old bare wood on a pine branch will not resprout.
The species span a wide range, from mugo pine in zone 2 to loblolly in zone 9. Match the pine to your winters rather than protecting it later.
Every 1–2 weeks in spring and summer while they’re actively growing, and every 4 weeks in fall and winter. Pine Tree Fertilizer is mixed at 2 tablespoons per gallon of water into your regular watering, or applied with a hose-end sprayer on the 1 ounce setting for screens and windbreaks. Pines hold their needles and grow through more of the year than deciduous trees, so consistent, dilute feeding suits them better than one heavy application; the nitrogen supports dense needle growth and the spring candles, and the potassium supports roots and hardiness.
If the yellowing is a nutrient shortage, yes. Yellowing or browning needles often trace to low iron or magnesium, and Pine Tree Fertilizer supplies both in a form the roots take up quickly, so new needles come in green within a few weeks. Some yellowing and drop on the inner, older needles is natural as pines shed seasonally; it’s when new growth is affected that feeding matters. Needles already discolored won’t recover, and if the cause is drought, root damage or disease, address that first.
Yes, on the reduced schedule of every 4 weeks. Pines keep their needles and stay mildly active year-round, so a light winter feeding with Pine Tree Fertilizer supports them without pushing tender growth that cold would damage; the potassium in the formula supports the winter hardiness pines depend on. In very cold regions, ease off during hard freezes, when roots take up little, and resume as conditions moderate in spring, moving back to every 1–2 weeks once active growth begins.
Pine Tree Fertilizer is a dilute liquid feed, and dilution is what matters here. Fertilizer burn happens when concentrated salts sit against the roots: too much product in too little water, or granules piled at the base of a tree. Mixed at 2 tablespoons per gallon and applied every 1–2 weeks in the growing season, the nutrients arrive in solution at a strength the roots take up as they water, and all of the nitrogen is nitrate, the form roots absorb directly. For newly planted or transplanted pines, start at half strength for the first two feedings.
Color first, density later. All of the nitrogen in Pine Tree Fertilizer is nitrate, which roots absorb directly, so new growth typically comes in greener and fuller within the first few weeks of feeding during the growing season, with the iron and magnesium supporting that deep green. Because pines grow slowly and put on much of their growth in the spring candles, filling in thin areas takes a full season or more. Steady feeding through spring and summer is what builds that denser growth.
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