Help help help! Thuja green giant is dying
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2 years ago
i purchased 3 thujas from fast growing trees and planted in early March. They were green and soft until... they started turning yellow. I emailed the company and they said at this point (about 5 weeks after planting) they didn’t need regular watering and just needed rain water. I’m in NC and we get enough rain during spring that it made sense. Well, I stopped watering and now one of the trees is dry, pale and dying. The trunk scratch test was green so I guess its not fully dead yet. But the needles will crumble if I run my hand along them. What the heck am I doing wrong? I watered them today but honestly I don’t even know if I should have. I thought these were supposed to be easy to care for. I guess not for me.
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