Juniper (Pro.Nana) Dead? help :(
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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??
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Posted 7 years 11 months ago #28985Probably it is dead. DO NOT work on the roots and do not fertilize plants that are unhealthy.
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Posted 7 years 11 months ago #28994As 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
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2. If the foliage comes off easily and feels brittle, it's dead. Else, it's probably dead.
3. Junipers do not survive indoors.
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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.
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azara wrote: My "young plant" recently also started to lose its leaves due to their brittleness
Your plant is not a juniper.
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Posted 7 years 11 months ago #29019:woohoo:Auk wrote:
azara wrote: My "young plant" recently also started to lose its leaves due to their brittleness
Your plant is not a juniper.
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Posted 7 years 11 months ago #29021So 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
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Yep. Quite some time already, actually.fritobandito wrote: So some of the groupings of needles fall off when i poke and prod them. Therefore its dead right?
Here:So where did I go wrong?
Junipers don't belong indoors. But I already said that:indoor plants are hard for me...
3. Junipers do not survive indoors.
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