jloeschner

mkingiii,

That is interesting. Unfortunately, I am not sure how to bring a juniper back "from the dead", since I have never tried. It sounds as if you have more experience at this feat than I have. However, if I were to try, I would probably just closely watch my watering habits, and place it in bright, indirect sunlight in an outdoors setting.

As for the invisibility of the web-makers, spider mites are very small. You can check for them by gently shaking a branch over a white sheet of paper. IF the paper becomes speckled with reddish brown specks, then you can reasonably assume that your tree has a case of the crabs (spider mites).

The book question is easy. My first bonsai book, and still my favorite, since I don't have Naka's yet, is Bonsai by Harry Tomlinson. It is a virtual mini-encyclopedia of bonsai information, and has served me well.

Good luck with you tree, and I hope you figure out how to save it.

John

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