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Hi. I have only a few junipers, none of them are really bonsai material but I am keeping them just to learn how to take care of them, prune them, etc... because I am planning to get a nice one in the near future. They all survived winter, and put out fruits and everything. They started growing nicely in the Spring, but then stopped growing and have been slowly dying from the top.




The one pictured I've had it for 2 years, and re-potted last year. I am not sure what's going on here, and I think they are going to die...

Thanks!!!

All of them?
Then most logically it is a care/location issue.

- Watering?
- Fertilizing
- Did you repot all of them?

leatherback wrote: All of them?
Then most logically it is a care/location issue.

- Watering?
- Fertilizing
- Did you repot all of them?

No. Only one of them (last year). I have only fertilize once this year. It could be watering, but I really doubt it. I mean... there's got to be something I am doing wrong, because it is all of them. Could be location, I just moved to a new house. Could it also be winter damage and it is being shown now?

If they were growing well in spring I would suspect it is something else then water damage. You did not by accident fertilize with miracle grow? I think it was pines that do not like the stuff. But maybe junipers too?

leatherback wrote: If they were growing well in spring I would suspect it is something else then water damage. You did not by accident fertilize with miracle grow? I think it was pines that do not like the stuff. But maybe junipers too?

No. I only use organic 5-5-5, which I put minimal amount only once this year in the juniper. And complimented with a little bit of organic fish fertilizer. All my plants are doing great, except the junipers.

They are all dying from the top, just like that. You can even see in the first picture, there was some "new" growth at the tips, which doesn't look good anymore, and it is probably going to die. It has been quite slowly degrading, this has been a matter of weeks, and it has been so slow that I initially thought it was dropping all foliage. Until all the junipers started doing it, and new growth started dying, I realized something was wrong. The foliage is still soft in all of them, and the dying process has been very very slow. Could it be some type of disease?

I would probably in your situation pop them out of their pots and check the roots. Maybe even consider planting them in the ground ?
Dificult. This is always one of those situations where it is unclear. A disease could be, but not sure what. You miht be keeping them too wet?

leatherback wrote: I would probably in your situation pop them out of their pots and check the roots. Maybe even consider planting them in the ground ?
Dificult. This is always one of those situations where it is unclear. A disease could be, but not sure what. You miht be keeping them too wet?

This year it has been raining almost every single day, and temperatures have hardly gone above 15 Celsius and it is already early summer. Night temps have been average 7~8 C. I live in a cold place, but this year's spring and early summer has been cold and very rainy, cloudy. We also had some random, about 2 or 3, extreme hot days on mid spring (25 to 33 C), and then temps dropped drastically to 5~10C. Could that have something to do with it? My soil drains quite well, and it is really inorganic (I do that because it rains a lot here, although this year has been exceptionally wet). I'll check the roots. Could it be lack of sun? it has been very cloudy, and they were in a location where they used to get afternoon shade (before I moved, cause I had no other option).

Considering the substrate, I would not really think so. Naturally, there could be larger insectlarvea living off the roots, or aphids on the roots.
Odd. The cold could of course affect them, but it is not soo cold. Odd.

leatherback wrote: Considering the substrate, I would not really think so. Naturally, there could be larger insectlarvea living off the roots, or aphids on the roots.
Odd. The cold could of course affect them, but it is not soo cold. Odd.

Well of course, not compared to the -10 to -30C they survived this winter... But I thought maybe a combination of cold, rain, lack of sun, in the time of the year where they are supposed to grow. I know this is quite odd and driving me insane to watch them die slowly... the experience I have from killing junipers has been quite different. Usually they are fine for a week, or two, and then they die quickly. I'll check the roots.