New juniper

[RNbonsai]

Hey yall,
I know it's wrong season and I took off too much, but I wanted to work on styling and couldn't help myself. Hopefully she makes it...
Sea green, gimme some critique

Here's a before and after-

 

[RNbonsai]

Yikes 2d really kills 3d

 

[sorce]

Yikes 2d really kills 3d

As long as you're not 2d. And the tree 3d. But something tells me......

took off too much

It is this way!

Enough jokes.
Yeah you took off too much,
as long as you remember that,
The next one will live!

For this, one of the worst type for bonsai, and what you were offered, I like what you found in it.

My advice.

Start with better material.
For common depot junipers. I like Parsons/parsoni and procumbens nana.
The growth habit is superior, making what you find a much better start.
Sometimes you can find others, but usually something decent is rare enough to not bother looking through them. Haven't found one yet.

It looks like you may even be green enough to go into the looking part...

I scoured probably 1000, yes 1k, nana alone this year.
7, yes seven, Home depots.

And I found 7 trees worthy of purchase, of which maybe 2 Will amount to anything decent. If they live!

You gotta spend at least an hour, and if you go home with nothing, you are on the right track!

You gotta get dirty, and dirty looks from the store staff!
By the time you leave, you should have memorized,
"remember to keep your children safe, no running or skating in the store and this includes shoes with built in skates, no climbing on the displays or shopping carts, keep your children close, or they will get run over by the moron on the forklift."

My kids run around, play with the sprinklers, pick flowers, splash in puddles, and beg to go back by the Halloween stuff! Lol. Its ok cause they are 3 and 6 and way smarter than the home depot staff!

I hope this helps!
Again, good eye, you owe yourself better material. Better $5 material.

Try to leave ALL the foilage on and wire it all!
Then do it again, and again, till it doesn't look like an arthritic Stevie Wonder wired your tree!

Sorce

 

[klosi]

I think you did a good job selecting main trunks and branches from the bush. You should practice wiring, if you haven't yet watch the collin lewis tutorial on craftsy. Se what you did wrong and correct it. Hope it will survive, otherwise learn from it.

 

[sorce]

Since we're on Colin Lewis, I'll grab the ponytail! Lol

Watch the YouTube critique in Milwaukee.

The cascade juni. He talks about keeping the cascade branch bunched up to gather energy.

This has helped me leave enough foilage on to do so.

Sorce

 

[GrimLore]

Hopefully she makes it... Sea green, gimme some critique

Honest not bad - just bad timing. I find that Junipers do best if left to grow in the Nursery pot for a growing season and Winter so I would not recommend doing anything else to it at this time. If it Winters ok and is healthy next season I would wire it and trim it but I would still leave it in the Nursery pot until at least the following year. As for something to do for now you might consider trolling some big box stores for material to chop up in Spring and preparing an area for Winter.

Welcome to B-Nut

Grimmy

 

[RNbonsai]

Yea I got advice here before about not attacking right after getting them, my solution was to buy two haha. One to not touch one to work on.
I'll check out Collin Lewis I haven't heard that name befire. I've gotten better at wiring from when I started but damn it's an art in itself.

Thanks for the advice, off to YouTube I go

 

[RNbonsai]

Also, I think it may have been you who gave me the let them sit for a bit advice which I am trying so hard to do.
I got a pyracantha that other than a few dead leafs I have left untouched and I'm not gunna fiddle with till I Learn more about them.

I would love to spend a little more and get a nicer peice to work with, but I haven't survived a winter yet so I wanna see how I do - d might get a better piece in spring.

 

[GrimLore]

I would love to spend a little more and get a nicer peice to work with, but I haven't survived a winter yet so I wanna see how I do - d might get a better piece in spring.

In the process of me learning Juniper I have only played with a few learning how to grow and treat them. They a quite a bit different from Deciduous trees and other plants. In order to learn more types I recently ordered 5 different varieties of well routed cuttings. No reason for me to spend a lot until I really understand the limits of each type that interests me. It takes time but that is Bonsai

Grimmy

 

[RNbonsai]

In the process of me learning Juniper I have only played with a few learning how to grow and treat them. They a quite a bit different from Deciduous trees and other plants. In order to learn more types I recently ordered 5 different varieties of well routed cuttings. No reason for me to spend a lot until I really understand the limits of each type that interests me. It takes time but that is Bonsai

Grimmy

Yes, I had one that I stuck in the ground hoping I can do better with that. Deciduous trees for me have been easier so far. There is so much to learn, I doubt I will ever make it halfway to learning the limits of anything. Although I have pushed them past it a lot so maybe I'm learning backwards ha.
Either way I love trees!

 

[thomas22]

Don't get discouraged RN. I've been doing bonsai for a little over 5 years and Junipers have been my main interest. I have just got to the point where I think I understand them. I think I have another 5 years until I'm good at them. I've been reading about not pinching the growing tips and cleaning the foliage to let the light penetrate the interior of the tree for years but it takes hands on experience to really understand why these practices are important. I have about 15 junipers in different stages and I am now better at working on them at right time of year and when they are ready to be worked on. Its much harder to be patient when you only have a few.

 

[RNbonsai]

So it has lived, and is growing well. All juvenile new growth.
It looks better in person, I think? I hope?
Anyways just thought I'd throw it up so I can keep a tab on how it does

 

[vaibatron]

Great news! It didn't die!

You are among the 1%... And no, I don't mean THAT one percent

Maybe you are, but that's neither here nor there.

Get some more material and keep the juices flowing!

 

[RNbonsai]

Haha I wish I was! Thanks

 

[sorce]

Nice!

No IVs needed!

Sorce