Brand new juniper!

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I’ve got a new juniper and it has some pretty thick branches growing out of the pot and down the sides and was wondering if I were to trim them would it die? And another thing is if I wouldn’t die when or is their an ideal to time to do some heavy pruning?

 

[Tidal Bonsai]

Branches, or roots? Pictures would help.

 

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Branches, or roots? Pictures would help.

Branches right now I haven’t gotten a good look at the roots or even the stump I should have some pics by tomorrow mornings.

 

[leatherback]

This is a fairly generic question. What you call heavy branches might be mere twigs to others. I would recommend posting a picture.

In general you can go 30-40% foliage removal without too bad a punishement. But you may get partial trunk die-back when removing lagre main branches. So.. Post a pictre please

 

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I hope these pictures will do just tell me if you want any more I haven’t gotten to look at the root ball yet but I also have a follow up question when I foot cut off a lot of the root ball when I first did it with my grandfather whe had chopsticks and pushed in rock for drainage but on YouTube they just cut it and put in the pot so i was wondering which way is right or at least what do y’all do?

 

[Tidal Bonsai]

There looks to be plenty of foliage. If you remove that one branch, it shouldn't skip a beat.

 

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Ok thank you so much I’ll get to when I’m done with school.

 

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I hope these pictures will do just tell me if you want any more I haven’t gotten to look at the root ball yet but I also have a follow up question when I foot cut off a lot of the root ball when I first did it with my grandfather whe had chopsticks and pushed in