Originally Posted by Aaryn

I'm watching my first juniper as it grows through our first springtime together... and noticed something I've never heard of before. On many of the branch tips, there are white growths beginning that look like another set of scaly leaves or almost like little white flowers (barely larger than the tips of current foliage). Some of them are getting bulbous, and one looks like it's darkening up a little, seems slightly blue or blue-green.

Am I getting berries? I don't think so because the plant is so young. Farther up the "branches," (they're really just shoots and still green) there are little dark spots that almost look like mildew or dirt.

The tree is well-ventilated and I water the soil when it gets dry, not through the foliage, as it's damp here already (Seattle) most of the time.

Any ideas?