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See that's all well&good for Junipers (or any "not gonna develop it, just gonna shape-into-bonsai" specimen), where it's not going to see root-growth....very different scenario than nursery stock that needs development, where the roots will be grown-out, then after a while of development of the top (ie the time it's in a grow/development container), then its roots begin to get treated as you described your junipers & showed them in that thread.@SU2
Nearing the 12th post here is how I typically handle nursery junipers.Last juniper purchases this year I "promise" (fingers crossed)
Sarcastically, my wife said I needed another juniper, so I got 3 :p All 3 are in 3g cans. Left to right Sargent, Robusta (tall like a Hollywood juniper) and Gold Lace. There's a nursery not far from here in the Green Bottom Lesage area that sells wholesale from Columbus, Cincinnati -...www.bonsainut.com
You can see how much root work I do with a healthy bushy juniper.
The next potting I will remove a little more nursery soil, much less roots, but still tending to them.
After recovery that year I initially put them up, I do very little foliage work if any at all.
In my climate they do best hard pruned early July as with the example of the Gold Lace and Sargent above.
Hope that helps .
Oh, more Sunlight after repotting with afternoon or late afternoon shade on through the evening.
I mean the Sun is why I want my juniper bushy before I repot it to drive root development and survival
once potted up.
[[NOT that there's anything wrong w/ that, *everybody* should be creating what they like in this art, I just didn't convey well enough in the OP that I mean "nursery stock to grow-out" as a means of 'bonsai-stock acquisition', whereas what you're doing w/ those junipers is taking 'regular'/nursery junipers and, essentially, potting up for bonsai then&there, approaching w/ clip&grow maintenance, and growing/wiring/clipping for a "final design" that'll be something you can see very clearly almost from the 1st styling... Will say I'm curious how many years you've got on some of your junipers? I've always wondered at that type of thing ie when you just do slow-growth / refinement-horticulture-only, seems it's only-allowed on conifers...super pretty trees/foliage, expecially the blues like the atlas you mention in that thread, imagine I'd have a very different garden if I were in CO instead of here in semi-tropic FL ;P ]]
