Beginner Gardening: van der wolf pine looks awful, please help!, 0 by audreymarmot

audreymarmot wrote:
we planted this 6 foot high van der wolf pine last spring from a huge container, 30 gal maybe? it did fine last year, even put out new growth. this spring it has a lot of brown needles and doesn't seem to have any new growth on it. we fertilized and watered deeply, but is there anything else we should be doing?
the other pines in our yard look just fine, btw, so i hope it's not pine blister rot or something...
any advice would be welcome, thanks so much!