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Hi I have had a Juniper (pro.Nana) for 2 years and its needles have become rather brown and white...still green but progressively less so.
I have been watering with 20-20-20 every month or 2 and watering 3x per week (i ahve experimented with watering less and more to see if it helps but it doesnt seem to.
My questions are:
1) is it dead?
2) i imagine i should dig up the root ball prune it and top dress the pot but it that the correct first step here?
3) thoughts as to what went wrong? maybe i just didnt dig it up soon enough??

sorry, not going to external sites, and certainly not through hidden links. Post your image on the forum please.
Probably it is dead. DO NOT work on the roots and do not fertilize plants that are unhealthy.

OK i think I attached it properly, ( sorry for the external link a lot of forums like you to post elsewhere so as to not clog up the forums server)

As a note I have read a bonsai book but there isnt a chapter on 'Is my bonsai dead'. Also how do you tell? I do struggle quite a bit with bonsai, maybe bonsai and I should just break up. Tomatoes are easy
I can post more pictures if you want to see close ups of something. The image is pretty big so you can zoom in quite a bit (thought it would be ok).

1. It's a young plant, not a bonsai
2. If the foliage comes off easily and feels brittle, it's dead. Else, it's probably dead.
3. Junipers do not survive indoors.

Auk wrote: 1. It's a young plant, not a bonsai
2. If the foliage comes off easily and feels brittle, it's dead. Else, it's probably dead.
3. Junipers do not survive indoors.

My "young plant" recently also started to lose its leaves due to their brittleness. It was NOT dead, and is now surging back to life with new green shorts and improved growth, due to a couple of changes I made to its care. Not saying this one's not dead (you're the expert, and I'm a hopeless beginner), but in my limited experience brittle does not necessarily equate to dead.

azara wrote: My "young plant" recently also started to lose its leaves due to their brittleness

Your plant is not a juniper.

Auk wrote:

azara wrote: My "young plant" recently also started to lose its leaves due to their brittleness

Your plant is not a juniper.

:woohoo:

So some of the groupings of needles fall off when i poke and prod them. Therefore its dead right?

So where did I go wrong? When I chose a juniper? The person at the store said it was good for beginners .
It seemed happy for quite a while.

For reference I understand outdoor plants quite well (i have a productive hobby farm) but indoor plants are hard for me...T_T

You make it sound like you kept the juniper indoors. I assume you did not do this. But if you did, that is where you went wrong. Junipers do not live inside. They die.

fritobandito wrote: So some of the groupings of needles fall off when i poke and prod them. Therefore its dead right?

Yep. Quite some time already, actually.

So where did I go wrong?

Here:

indoor plants are hard for me...

Junipers don't belong indoors. But I already said that:

3. Junipers do not survive indoors.