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Hi all. Something strange is happening to my Itoigawa Shimpaku Juniper... The color of the foliage turned from a nice green to this lighter kind of olive green as you can see in the photos. This color change happened in less than 2 days and it has been this way for about a week. I don't really know what caused this, because I have not changed how I care for him. The weather has been mostly sunny and at about 75 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit and he's always under a shade netting in my backyard where he get's some direct sun in the morning and filtered sun for the rest of the day. The soil I use is about 80 percent akadama, 10 percent lava rock, and 10 percent organic. Which he has been in since I repotted him in spring and was doing great until recently. With that soil composition I water him about every 2 days with the current weather. I have had this tree for a while and I have not seen him like this before. In the winter he gets a bronze cast here but greens up in spring. As you can see a lot of the tips are bright green and he has some back budding that's not really visible in the photos so that's a good sign, but the color is just odd. Has anyone had their Shimpaku Juniper look like this? And should I be alarmed? I appreciate your response, thank you for your time.
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