Could you put the pictures into the post? People don’t necessarily feel happy clicking links,

its already dug up???

if you measure the distance between whorls ... you will now exactly what its annual growth is.. and then you just multiply the decades from there .. no scale in the pic.. but using the truck tire.. is looks like 1.5 to 2 feet per year ....

you dug it in the wrong season.. [note section one at the link below]].... your odds of success are pretty low ... imo .. especially if its been laying on the ground ... for how long??? how big is the root ball.. presuming you balled and burlapped it ...

though i do understand.. you do what you do.. when you have to do it ... you will learn from the experience ...

where are you.. big city name.. and whats your native soil ...

its a telephone pole tree ... it will be such .. plant it 20 to 30 feet min .. from the house ...

ken

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Thanks Ken. We're located in SW Montana. The whirls are 14 inches apart. Also my wife informed me that I in fact am blind as she spotted several clusters of five needles. My best guess now is that we're dealing with an eastern white pine.

The tree was dug up last night around 6:30 and went into the ground this morning at 8.

The soil in the spot I planted is predominantly sandy loam, with some clay. We have a decent size lot. I probably planted it sixty feet away from the house

Needles and bark bear close resemblance to western white pine (pinus monticola).

Looking at the cone in the second picture, pinus flexillis would be correct.

Has the general appearance of Pinus flexilis 'Vanderwolf's Pyramid' which has a history of being prevalent in commerce. Narrow at first it broadens later so that one I saw growing on an apparently heavily irrigated lawn in the arid climate of Yakima some years ago I estimated to have an average crown spread of 44 ft. Expect also to have to keep yours watered consistently for at least a couple summers and maybe even indefinitely thereafter, at least during drier periods - the cultivar was selected in New Jersey so we know it can at least function in a wet summer climate and might actually benefit from one. Otherwise I have seen indications that this tree is subject to white pine blister rust so you might want to check on the likelihood of that appearing on your site. Finally it has been observed that 'Vanderwolf's Pyramid' has morphological features of reflexa, a botanical designation for part of an array of similar to one another pines seen in nature and which you can see discussed here (under Taxonomic notes):

Pinus flexilis (limber pine) description - The Gymnosperm Database (conifers.org)