Massive nursery juniper

[sorce]

I believe the "gravity" aspect of it is ridiculous too.

If we continue to analyze it through these means that are wrong, we won't see the truth.

The cycle is first.

The moon and the plants are the next step.

The moon doesn't cause these effects.

It merely mirrors the same cycle.

This is why I called it like a menstrual cycle.

People think the menstrual cycle is monthly.

It's not.

More stupid human thought.

Do you see how we get stuck in Beliefs?

This is what we must escape from, before understanding the truth.

Before enlightenment.

Sorce

 

[M. Frary]

Then there is no reason to repot whatsoever. Except to cure a human need

Exactly.
I would wait until next spring.
Patience or lack thereof has killed many a tree.

 

[just.wing.it]

Exactly.
I would wait until next spring.
Patience or lack thereof has killed many a tree.

Heard that truth!
My big juniper got HBR'd this summer.
Foliage remained untouched.
It grew really well this year.
Gonna let it run again next year, with minor branch selection in summer.
Then HBR the other half in spring of 2021.
Plan to let it run again and begin sytiling in 2022.
Slower is safer, certainly.

 

[RNbonsai]

I’ve come to the conclusion that I have not yet found a conclusion.

I’ve read the tree, done my crack of peeling some bark off, watered it.
I’ve pretty much only found that I have not found it yet.

The y trunk is going to be tricky, the other trunk too. Not sure if there is a good way to keep them all.

Current plan is to chainsaw the bottom 1/2-2/3 of the roots off, and close to bare root in the spring.
Then look at it again.

For you doubters I have attached a Picasso level drawing of my current conclusion- sees only the y trunks. Don’t wanna overwhelm anyone with a three tree just yet
Other choice is to cut the boring-er one and just use one.

 

[RNbonsai]

 

[RNbonsai]

I like this idea, it would lose the third trunk though.

Im trying to see the tree with three trunks, it may only happen after I get it trimmed back

 

[Cuchilo]

I love playing with big nursery stock ! Hello BTW i'm new here but been on weetrees for a while .
I would pop it out of the pot and start finding the base of the tree . With this stuff i have found that they have just been shoved in a bigger pot and more soil has been added on top . Sometimes you can dig down to almost the bottom of the pot before you find the bottom of the trunk . As you go lower keep checking the tree is not getting loose in the soil and push a chop stick in to check there is more trunk under the remaining soil .
Once you have found the base of the trunk and the tree is still firm in its soil pick the trunk line you want or how you want it in the pot . You can then trim the lower roots to re position the tree in its pot .
Personally i use all the soil and roots i have cut off and put it back in the pot I then add a medium to bring the tree to the top of its original pot and add more medium around the new rootball i have created . I dont take it back to a small root ball , depending on how much off the top i have taken . Just enough to re position it and add drainage . Pack this in with a stick 2x1 so the rootball is solid in the pot .
Now all you have done is given it a little hair cut with room for the feeder roots to grow , so you can start wiring and pruning .
I'll be playing with this tomorrow

One already done and back in the same pot .

Left alone for a year and then into a training pot .

 

[RNbonsai]

Nice tree.
I'm planning to cut some roots and trim the top back in feb. ill get it into a training pot with better soil and go from there.

 

[RNbonsai]

Today. Not sure what happened or what I did to her?
It was on its side in an old nursery not being watered-but it was green.

Brought here I put it upright and watered occasionally. Not sure if I agreed it wrong?

Hopefully that last branch will live

 

[0soyoung]

I find it way too easy to drown junipers. Possibly the organic soil in the pot is broken down = vary clayey with little space for air filled porosity. Then add a dash of water and roots might similarly drown. Maybe it is why the pot was laying on its side and not being watered in the old nursery.

 

[Maloghurst]

Was it in clearance? Sometimes those trees have diseases and they cut off the already browned branches and stick it in clearance for half off then you take it home and the rest slowly dies.

 

[Hack Yeah!]

I bet the moon killed it

 

[leatherback]

Was it very proteted in the nursery? Maybe automated misting? Overhead shading?
Moving plants from moist shaded conditions into full sun can do this (To deciduous, to be honest have not seen it happen on Juniper). Root issues can do this to. Say.. LEt it dry out too far, watering in a way that the core of the roots do not get watered. Root ends die -> dry hot weather -> Plant dies

 

[sorce]

Was it uprooted before purchase?

Next!

No tanuki!

Sorce

 

[Cuchilo]

That still looks slightly green at the top . I have two junipers that do this in winter ( London ) I swear they have died but in the spring they green up again .
This juniper also does it unless its put under a shelter for the winter .

That photo was taken two months ago and it has been under a roof but outside . Nearly all of it has greened up again .

 

[RNbonsai]

It was on its side in the back, getting partial shade. I put it standing up with about the same shade by chance.
I think it was poor watering, still watching to see what happens to it. If it was poor watering and a bunch of roots are dead I'll try to be careful when I repot and trim the dead ones.
It was green all over when I got it and looked pretty healthy.

 

[RNbonsai]

My gut feels like I let it dry out too much, possibly beyond recover