3 little maybes

[ForThemWhatCare]

A tree I bought in 2021 had 3 lower branches that were below the soil line and had all rooted so…I cut them off, applied some rooting hormone and stuck them in the ground. This winter I harvested them and now I have 3 free little “maybes.”

Problem is I cannot remember what type of Junipers these are. New growth comes in as a bright yellow but darkens within 3 months. Thought?

 

[WinstonWolfe]

Appears to be procumbent, but what sub-species, I do not know.
Post a pic of mature foliage and bark from the donor tree.
Mature foliage would be the parts that are less needle and more scale looking

 

[ForThemWhatCare]

 

[ForThemWhatCare]

Growing kind of wild now as I cut it back too much originally

 

[WinstonWolfe]

Have you touched it much in the past two seasons?

 

[ForThemWhatCare]

Yeah, when I pulled them from the ground and put them in pots I did shape them a little

 

[Deleted member 47471]

The issue with these 3 is no trunk movement / no interesting trunk movement. Thus, having been grown in the ground as such, the trunks are permanently fixed in that shape/style.

Squiggly straight-ish movement from base to lower/middle section with swelling followed by slight curving movement to the top of the trees leaves all 3 of them with not good options moving forward. If you can bend or twist cuttings before placing them into the ground, that will ensure they have objectively good shape and movement to further grow into.

 

[WinstonWolfe]

The issue with these 3 is no trunk movement / no interesting trunk movement.

We are trying to identify the particular type of juniper... style issues aside, do you know what they are?
Not Nana, not communis, but it seems like they will stay with needle like foliage.

Yeah, when I pulled them from the ground and put them in pots I did shape them a little

Most junipers (not all) will convert to mature growth (softer scale like foliage) after a period of time. If you continuously trim it, and cut back, this is forcing it to stay in needle like appearance.
Make your structural wire/ cuts, and leave it alone for a while (like two grow seasons at least)

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

They look a lot like juniperus chinensis var. stricta.

 

[Esolin]

Did the mature tree these came from have scale foliage? If so they're unlikely to be 'stricta'. It looks a prostrata or maybe procumbens to me, but that's the trouble with junipers. One looks so much like another, that solid IDs are generally hard without the original tag.

If the new growth comes in yellow, and the mature bush had scale, Chinensis Gold Coast or Old Gold are possible candidates as well. Again, super hard to be sure.