Thread: Juniper Dying?
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Old 25-Dec-2007   #1
McCoy
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Join Date: Dec-2007
Country: South Africa
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Red Leaf Juniper Dying?

Good day all.

I am new to Bonsais. We recently had a company function and each of us received a bonsai as a gift. It's a Juniper (2006 juniperus p. nana). This bonsai seems to be doing well and seems healthy. 3 of my colleagues left their bonsais in the office when they went on leave and I brought them home with me to care for them. Two of them are really not doing well. They haven't had water for quite some time and I don't know what I can do to help these bonsais live (if they're not dead already).

They are not planted in soil and it's just little rocks in the pot. The water filters through very quickly and it doesn't seem as if the water is sucked up again after watering them. They are currently placed in a table inside the house in front of a window and gets sun most of the day. I was told to maybe start dropping some soil into the top of the pot when I water them. I am watering them daily. The instructions on the pots reads: Evergreeen, fulls un/semi shade, cold and frost hardy. Repot 3 years. Water daily. Exotic.

I am in South Africa and it is summer here now. If you want I can upload pics of the bonsais. I really don't know if they are sill alive.

PS: I also recently bought a wild olive and a baobab bonsai which are both probably 1 or 2 years old and I'll ask the questions about them in a different topic.

Thanks a lot in advance!
Ok, I've uploaded these photos. The two on the outsides are the problamatic ones. I am actually not too sure if I'm doing anything right at all, but the middle two seem fine
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