Japanese Juniper in trouble or worse...

Dav4

Again, a picture of the foliage would really help. Maybe, you could get someone to help you get a descent pic. Also, where is the tree now?


Dave

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Giant_Bonsai

Still by the window... I'll try to get to work on some decent pics. Anyone have recommendations? I'm horrible with a camera!

kcpoole

To get photos of trees, hang an old sheet up somwhere, and place the tree about a foot or so in front of it.

Take photos from just above soil level and rotate the tree to get different views.

Once photos are on the PC. Resise them ( check many instructios on this site to find out how), and then attach to a new reply

Ken

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Dav4

I will say this one more time, more for my own sake then yours, I guess. Your juniper will almost undoubtedly languish and die if kept inside. The symptoms you describe may or may not be related to this certain fact. Your window of opportunity to acclimate your tree to the outdoor weather is rapidly closing. Over the last 3 mornings, my junipers have been subjected to temps in the mid to low 20's F, have been frozen solid, and will be fine come spring. I fear your juniper will not. Good luck,


Dave

Giant_Bonsai

The problem is that I live in a dorm. I don't get an outside... The window is the best I can do.

Dav4

As I said before, junipers will not fair well as indoor plants. Honestly, most plants would prefer to be kept outside assuming the climate is appropriate for the plant. There are some tropical/sub tropical trees that will cope with the indoor environment, but junipers are not one of them. Keeping it as cool as possible with very careful watering is about all I think you can do.


Dave

tachigi

Then your juniper has basically a death sentence. Since your at school could you go to one of the Departments that may have an outside area and persuade them to house your juniper? Another BTer that had the same problem was successful in arranging accomodations for his tree.

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Vance Wood

This is your best option. Not meaning to be sarcastic but only wishing to illustrate futility; what you are trying is like complaining when you filled your gas tank from the garden hose and now your car wont run. It is the same principal, on the face of it the Juniper should grow, but the fact is these trees need the cold weather, wind, rain and most of all fresh air. A car needs the appropriate combustible liquid. Without these elements they perish. An indoor environment cannot give them what they need.

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treebeard55

Giant, does your dorm allow mini-refrigerators? Eight weeks in one would give your tree a chance of staying healthy.

Alternatively, can you take it home and let it overwinter outdoors there? You might not get to see it frequently, but it would survive.

If you can't arrange a cold period for it, your best option is to sell it to someone who can overwinter it outdoors, and get yourself another tree that doesn't need a regular cold period. That means a tropical: several species of Ficus are good for the purpose.

Best of luck. Keep brainstorming!

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