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Hello! I was gifted a bonsai and I'm terrified I might kill it. I've done lots of research but I get differing answers. I know it's a juniper, I use the chopstick method for watering, and I try to keep it in the window all the time with the window occasionally open. I've been told it's an outside only tree, but I don't know where to put it. I have a very large, open backyard and a mostly covered deck (or at least will when I move back home in 2 weeks). I know they can be picky with watering, should I put it on the uncovered section of the deck and bring it in when it's raining? Or leave it on the covered side where it'll get less sunlight?
Just trying to learn, thank you!

Hey There.

1) Yes Junipers are outside only... Inside they'll die.

2) You place it where it can get as much sunlight as possible.

3) Don't worry about the rain, trees love rain, and you don't see them running away from it, hahahah. If the drainage it's ok, it's kind of difficult to get it overwatered. If it's outside, transpiring tru' foliage, getting wind and sun, it's fine.

4) This concern about watering you must have when it's not raining, because the tree is on a pot, and it depends on you to give it water when it's not raining...

5) You don't fiddle a tree from one spot to another, you place it on a spot and leave it there for the most part of the year, of course you can move when you have to prune, to take a picture, to place somewhere nice when you have a guess, but otherwise, it has it spot. Changing the spot a few times tru the year, ok... But you don't put it out when it's sunny and in when it's rainy, sometime you can even make your tree go crazy, because they "know" what season is by temperature gradient, light gradient and duration of the days...

6) Good thing you came to ask, most people come here with Junipers asking for help when it's already dead, turns aout the even after dead they keep a green foliage aspect for quite some time, once it gets brown, it's actually long gone.

Thank you so much for your response! Once I move back home, I'm going to find it a nice place in the backyard (probably around the garden) to stay. And you're so right about trees not running from rain lol so I think that's just me over-worrying about it. It has great drainage so it should be fine, as long as I can find a place it won't get knocked over or where some of the areas feral cats can't mess with it 0.0 Thank you again!

Albas wrote:

Hey There.

1) Yes Junipers are outside only... Inside they'll die.

2) You place it where it can get as much sunlight as possible.

3) Don't worry about the rain, trees love rain, and you don't see them running away from it, hahahah. If the drainage it's ok, it's kind of difficult to get it overwatered. If it's outside, transpiring tru' foliage, getting wind and sun, it's fine.

4) This concern about watering you must have when it's not raining, because the tree is on a pot, and it depends on you to give it water when it's not raining...

5) You don't fiddle a tree from one spot to another, you place it on a spot and leave it there for the most part of the year, of course you can move when you have to prune, to take a picture, to place somewhere nice when you have a guess, but otherwise, it has it spot. Changing the spot a few times tru the year, ok... But you don't put it out when it's sunny and in when it's rainy, sometime you can even make your tree go crazy, because they "know" what season is by temperature gradient, light gradient and duration of the days...

6) Good thing you came to ask, most people come here with Junipers asking for help when it's already dead, turns aout the even after dead they keep a green foliage aspect for quite some time, once it gets brown, it's actually long gone.

Good to know, I move my trees around all the time. Mostly when there is a big storm and i think they will blow away.

Si Guy wrote:

Good to know, I move my trees around all the time. Mostly when there is a big storm and i think they will blow away.

Well when the tree is in fact in danger, like fall from a balcony yes, it might be a good idea, but if the tree is on the same dangerous situation every time rain goes hard, it means it is on a dangerous spot... hahaha
So either you move to a safer spot (and left there) or just make it's spot safer.

I can't remember who was, and it's not that relevant for this example, but I remember I saw someone who has it's 名媛直播 trees on a balcony, because he lives on a apartment, so all his trees has it's pot tied to the balcony railing, just in case...

I have more problem with chipmunks and squirrels knocking them off than with wind. At least the weather report tells me when to expect wind.

Albas, funny you should mention, I was just thinking about tying them down. We get hurricanes in the summer and some are quite bad. For those, the trees would probably go in the shed in total darkness for the day or two. It would probably mess it up, but better than parts of it scattered everywhere.

Ivan, I actually just had a white pine I grew from cutting completely chewed off, every needle was missing from that stump. The squirrel didn't even eat any of it. Couldn't he have picked on one of the half dozen other mature white pines on the property?!?!

Siguy: can one grow pines from cuttings??!

Do you meaning to pinus pentaphylla?

It is a pine with smooth bark and little bunches of 5 needles.

Here is the image