Pine Tip Blight can be caused by several factors. Pine tip Blight, also known by other names such as Diplodia Tip Blight and pine needle blight are fungal diseases that affect pine trees. Flower Mound arborists are familiar with this disease and how it can affect the beautiful pine trees that grace our neighborhoods. This disease is able to survive the winter months and infiltrate trees through injuries and wounds. It then becomes more active during the wet season and the first signs of spring. As new needles become shorter, yellower, and eventually turn tan and brown, it quickly causes irreparable damage. The new needle growth each year is often killed and, in extreme cases, even the branches are destroyed.

The disease starts at the bottom of the tree and progresses upward. Pine needle blight can be devastating to very young seedling trees. However, older fir trees (30 years or older) are more at risk from this disease. This is because they have been exposed to stress and other physical injuries that could weaken them. This deadly fungus prefers older residential trees like those in Flower Mound. They rarely target firs younger than fifteen years. You should contact an arbor professional immediately if your pine tree has pine needle blight.