Take it this pine is definitely dead?

[OrchidFan]

Im new to gardening...forgive me...just want to be sure before putting it in brown bin. :-(
I thought pines and stuff that grew on mountains wld be super hardy and not need watering. Looks like I was wrong!

Im confused cos my christmas tree is doing fine with neglect!

They do need some watering - especially in a small pot. It rains on mountains!

Love that the first photo is marked as sensitive content 😁

@Agapornis I am clearly learning gardening the hard way!

Yes, it's a very sad picture of my poor dead pine :-( RIP

BTW do we agree my Christmas tree is a spruce not a pine? That's what Plant ID is suggesting.

Trees planted in the ground in your garden or growing in the wild are able find water for themselves as they have roots going deep down into the ground to where the water is. Trees growing out of rocky crevices in the mountains will have sent out incredibly long adventitious roots down between the rocks, and will have grown in such a way that they can cope with whatever the climate throws at them.

A plant in a pot cannot do that. It is basically trapped in an artificial rocky crevice with no access to water other than what falls from the sky and, in the absence of rain, whatever you give it.

And yes, that pine is stone dead I'm afraid. The other one is picea abies - in other words, a spruce.