october

Not bad for 6 bucks. I am training an arborvitae that I also purchased for 6 bucks. It will be a nice tree in a few years. As far as your juniper goes, one drawback about garden center nursery stock, is that there are usually not many sub-branches. This due to the tree being somewhat young and with it being bushy, light cannot penetrate the interior of the tree to develope it properly. I will bet that when you start triming, you will find one or two main branches with almost no small branches that have hardened ( woodened off yet ). This means that you can probably wire the trunk and main branch, but you will probably have to wait a year or two to wire the sub brances. In my opinion, I would pick your main branch and then start triming back. Keep in mind the small branches and buds down the main branch that will become future branches. Also, keep in mind to leave a branch for an apex ( the top of the tree ). If you are not sure about a cut, wait, definitely wait. Look at the tree for a little while everyday. this way when you make the cut, it was well thought out. I hope this somewhat helps.