Juniperus - Questions to the experts

[drew33998]

I assisted Tyler Sherrod with a Juniper styling class today. Mostly old 25 year old Procumbens. Some were pretty much all scale, some were pretty much all juvenile, some a mix.

So, I asked Tyler about Procumbens. If they aways stay juvenile, and he said no, they will go scale when they get old. It’s hard to keep them scale, they revert to juvi easily.

Tyler spent 5 years as an apprentice to Shinji Suzuki in Japan, and has worked on hundreds of Junipers. Maybe even thousands. Of all varieties.

Here are a couple of pictures of one of the trees we worked on today. As you can see, part was scale, part was juvi.

Scale:

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Whole tree:

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Juvenile close up:

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Is that from the "sea of junipers"? I'd like to get me one of those

 

[Adair M]

Indeed! This is the last of them. The grower who has been growing them for Plant City for 30 years is retiring. So Stev went and bought them all. There are some about 15 years old that make nice Shohin, too.

 

[drew33998]

Crap Steve is already is out? Several years back he had hundreds of them! Good for him if so.

 

[Adair M]

Crap Steve is already is out? Several years back he had hundreds of them! Good for him if so.

No, he just brought in about 500!

But, this will be the last of them until he can find another supplier.

 

[my nellie]

Hello everybody!

It's almost two months and my juniper is doing fine.
No sign of any stress.
So now I am thinking of reducing the foliage, pruning, selecting branches and so on.

I would love to hear your suggestions!
Do it now or wait a little longer?
I need everyone's opinion @Adair M @MichaelS @RKatzin @M. Frary and anyone else in the mood to help
Thanks everybody in advance!

 

[Adair M]

Are you getting runners? Let it grow until you get runners.

 

[sorce]

I wouldn't prune it yet if you are going into winter. Seems a slow time to get a gauge on health.

In summer, after my repotted Spruce and Juniper showed signs of not realizing they were repotted, I trimmed em a little, but only stuff that absolutely had to go.

Stuff already slated to be removed at that point.

But that was summer, with no growth in winter, it seems removing, is giving nothing going back.

Sorce

 

[my nellie]

Hi @sorce Thank you for your reply.
Very thoughtful and wise! Closer to my mind, too.

 

[defra]

I had the same situation with a juniper and also waited untill it grew runners the wait will be rewarded!

 

[my nellie]

... ... the wait will be rewarded!

Definitely!
Thanks for responding.

 

[Paulpash]

Watch out for the runners... would you pinch these, Adair?

 

[M. Frary]

Watch out for the runners... would you pinch these, Adair?

I would.
I would also wait to cut back junipers until saw it growing good next year.

 

[Paulpash]

I think Adair is the one in the green?

 

[M. Frary]

I think Adair is the one in the green?

Sounds about right.
It could be but then who are the rest?

 

[Paulpash]

@Smoke maybe - can I see a hint of pink thong?

 

[M. Frary]

@Smoke maybe - can I see a hint of pink thong?

I want to know how they can run in those shoes.
I have a hard time just walking in my size 13 pumps.

 

[my nellie]

You guys are unbelievable!
Thank you so much for making me laugh!

 

[my nellie]

Are you getting runners? Let it grow until you get runners.

Aaah those runners!
Yes, we (me and my juniper) do have such runners!

 

[Adair M]

I think Adair is the one in the green?

Sorry, those are the losers! I had already crossed the finish line!

 

[my nellie]