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Hello! I was recently given a bonsai and it needs a lot of love. I'm not sure how images work in this editor yet so if that doesn't work please see the pictures here:

Using the ID guide I think it is Japanese cryptomeria but the full pictures I'm seeing online have pretty different shapes.

Once I ID I'll need to get new soil for it, I think. The solid is old, VERY DRY, and it seems to be completely hydrophobic.

Is this a good line of thought?

I have a lot more research to do but once I get a positive ID I can get started more easily.

Thank you in advance!

If it is that dry water it. Do not re pot at this time of year. There are no pictures but if you have found what it is then it also must be outside.

Just this one time, put the pot in a large bowl of water and let the water soak up into the dry root ball.

Don't ever let the root ball get this dry again. From now on, water from the top until water flows out of the holes in the bottom of the pot. You may read that the proper way to water is soaking upwards, but it isn't. It is necessary this one time because the root ball is too dry.

Its a juniper, a very young one that can hardly be called a bonsai.
That soil is bone dry, so water as Ivan described. Second : outside or it will die , without any doubt. Do not replant now, it already looks not healthy.

Thank you. It looks like I'll have to re-home I don't have any outdoor spots. Glad I checked