How do you stop the blur?

[Eric2575]

I'm working on a still, not an animation. I double checked, and there is no change over time in this still. All I am trying to do is render a semi realistic pine branch in a scene. Since I want to smooth the whole scene out, I'm initially using a 9x pass. The problem is the pine branch. There is obviously something going on that is causing this, I'm just not seeing what I'm doing wrong. Compare this to a TWO scene with a pine tree that has no blurring, but I bet it does have multipass? There is no motion blur or focal length change in the camera setting.

 

Edit:

 

After playing around with the hair material and not getting anywhere, I deleted it and created a new one without this problem.

[paradymx]

try the softening under the multi pass

[Eric2575]

It actually had something to do with the original hair material. After I deleted that one and made a new one, the problem disappeared.