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My goyomatsu is in rude health. It's mid spring here in Japan and I'm getting all the vigour and new growth i was hoping for.

There's just one worry for me. A cluster of needless - as far as i can tell just a single such node - is brown. The rest of the bonsai is green and vigorous. What's happening?

The needles aren't easily falling out, i gently tugged on them with no effect, they're just discoloured.

Sorry i don't fully get the system for uploading images.

When I get a single branchlet dying off and the rest of the tree is in good health, I usually take it off and forget about it untill a second branch gets in trouble. Then I look for causes.

It is easy for something to bump into a branch and damage it unwittingly..
Of course, I could say.. It could be a cluster of aphids. Or it could be fungal. But right now, the tree looks perfectly OK..

Thanks for your great help! I'll have a very close look now and look for bugs all over the tree. I'll lop off that cluster too! I'll check back with photos if i notice anything~

leatherback wrote: When I get a single branchlet dying off and the rest of the tree is in good health, I usually take it off and forget about it untill a second branch gets in trouble. Then I look for causes.

It is easy for something to bump into a branch and damage it unwittingly..
Of course, I could say.. It could be a cluster of aphids. Or it could be fungal. But right now, the tree looks perfectly OK..

Thanks again for this

Here are three more pictures. First of all, i was delighted to see that a baby Praying Mantis from the other end of the garden seems to have chosen my goyomatsu for a condominium!

Secondly, as you can perhaps see the needles at the foot of that candle are still green, so I'm not sure where i should cut, if i should cut at all.

Finally, in addition, i don't suppose you may have some tips for keeping the moss green?

Edit: sorry, all the photos are rotated clockwise 90°