falling needles

Vance Wood

Just water and don't water again until it dries out, not like a concerte drive-way, but at least dry on top. They like a good deal of sun but don't like to cook like a road kill on an Arizona highway. Partial shade is good enough, with morning sun for now. Junipers come from natural environments where the winds blow, lightening strikes, deer chew on them, bears roll on them, blizzards blizzard on them and they sometimes get burried under avalanches, but---oddly enough you can kill them with kindness.

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md4958

Thank you Vance for this new verb! It will become well used here in New England....is Blizzarding an acceptable form of this word? (ie...its Blizzarding like heck outside)

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rockm

The best thing to do at this point IS NOTHING AT ALL

You hve begun what I call "beginner futzing." Futzing is doing nothing in particular to a tree, but doing nothing in particular until you kill the plant

Quit with the seaweed. It's not doing anything except making you feel better. It's not helping the plant and could be complicating things. The soil on your tree is most likely in need of a change, but that can't be done until the plant is recovered--which could take a year or two.

Vance Wood

Might work but it kind of breaks down when you try to use it in past tense. It blizzarded? Because of that it loses is eminence as a word that can be used for any purpose from the amuzing to the profane. Though I kind of get a kick out of peoples reaction when I tell them to go blizzard themselves.

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Jack_the_Bonsai

the tree is large and has bits of dappled sunlight. and I will give it nothing but water. thank you. btw, I like ur avatar, pretty eyes. and not all the needles are crispy, much of it is stillg green, so I'm hoping that it will be okay. *does a magic voodo bonsai* dance

md4958

JACK! Stop hitting on Joanie!!!

by the way...I like how you slid that compliment right in there.

-Moe

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Jack_the_Bonsai

lol yall a re funny. I love the new verbage...will try it out in daily converting. and like I said, alot of it is still green. so I"m hoping that delayd dying isn't in fact truth. and I also have another question- I live at a college. so I put my tree out in teh garden under the trees. in about 2 months or so, I have to move back down the street to my old building. will changing in slight evironments hurt it like that, even thought it's basically the same area, just different place. this other building I"m moving into, I've lived in before, it has an completely enclosed outdoor garden. I also put it on a bench under a rather large tree. again thanks everyone, I will have lots of paitience and lots of hope.

Jack_the_Bonsai

btw, I'm not hitting on her. I'm a girl. the user name is of the tree and that picture is why I"m making such a huge fuss. that tree is named after the guy in the photo and as you can prolly figure out, I dont'n get to see him much or spend or personal time with him.

toodles!

md4958

"Jack(ie)"

It is 2006 you know...

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