thats actually not bad at all for what it went thru ..

at least you didnt call it a pine tree ... and its not a fir .... id call it an arb... or some close derivation therein ...

all things good.. the new growth should come out just fine.. yours is just showing the stress of what you put it thru .. and the fact that you probably couldnt harden it off properly when you bodily thru it out the door in january ... that must have been a shock to the living tissue.. and this is the result of that ...

thats a very tall tree for the pot its in ... presuming its going to live on your balcony.. you are probably going to have to figure out how to stay upright when it gets windy ...

ken

btw: interior browning is cyclical and annual.. and increased by many factors like drought.. bad winter.. etc... it is common.. as the plant ages.. to have to go in there.. and roughly remove all the brown carp inside .. and what you are seeing is part of that.. just sped up due to the stresses mentioned above ...

Thanks for your response. The pot looks incredibly small in this photo, it is a bit larger that it appears here. The nursery that sold it to us told us to wait until the spring to repot it, I am assuming that would be a good idea at this point.

How long was it indoors over the holidays?

7-10 days