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Yes, it's another Juniper Malsai. Wife got it for me as a gift so it's going to stay around a while and I would like to not kill it.

I've had the tree for about a month and did every rookie mistake known to man - trimmed, wired and re-potted. Now that I've done som reading, those mistakes won't be made again.

Any way, after doing this work 3 weeks ago, in the last few days the tree has started to brown a bit in spots. The bushy parts are still soft to the touch and nothing breaks off. Branches are still flexible, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed there is still hope.

It stays outside (Florida) and gets approximately 6 hours of direct sunlight a day. The soil drains well, usually needing water about ever 3 days. I stick my finger down in the soil and only water when it is going from moist to dry. Never gets completely dried out. Pellet fertilizer/food was put down twice.

Any advice on how to keep this thing from dying?

Any help / advice would be greatly appreciated!

keep praying, I would, carefully cut those huge wires off, and just let it grow this season. Looks sort of dry to me, but I'm still a newbie.

If this is a recent picure, the tree will be fine. In the second ppicture it looks like a lot of small branches are developing in the crooks of the needles. Also, the first picture shows a stronger growing branch tip on the left. This is an indication that the tree is healthy.

So, at the moment it looks happy. Don't change too much. Just keep the soil on the dryish side. More junipers die from too much water than from being too dry. Although in Florida you have nice high temperatures, which helps avoiding root problems. Not sure how well they would do without a winterperiod, but if it is sold locally, perhaps they thrive..

Browning of needles happens when either the needles get old (So the inner needles get brown, and fall off). But also if you handle the plant too rough and/of branches got damaged/dried out.

The process of trimming, wiring & repotting in one session does not have to lead in death. With right aftercare and a green thumb (Basically, understanding of the plant species) it can recover very strongly.

Thanks for the info! After doing a ton of reading the last month the plan is to let this one grow for a couple of seasons before doing anything else. So keeping my fingers crossed it will do fine. Will keep an eye out for other indications of health and go from there.