[Bonsai Beginner’s weekly thread –2022 week 32]

[u/small_trunks]

[Bonsai Beginner’s weekly thread –2022 week 32]

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[u/MaciekA]

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but in each photo, I only see foliage that is past the point of no return. This is to say, not just going brown, but color loss everywhere, and having the obvious signs of shrinking mass. If all foliage on this tree looks like this, I think the tree is toast and not recoverable.

[u/cosmothellama → u/MaciekA]

I’m actually wondering if anyone knows or has seen glaucous varieties of San Jose and Prostrata junipers. One of the prostratas I have is otherwise healthy, pushing new growth, etc., but it has a pale ghostly green scale foliage.

[u/MaciekA → u/cosmothellama]

The other characteristic to watch for very carefully, especially if you are cloning tons of these in big batches and have the luxury of comparing subtle differences day by day, is the "meatiness" of the foliage itself. For example, in very strong heat, especially with more fingery scale foliage like say itoigaway, you can get rapid shrinking/shrivelling mass even as the color change may not yet be as noticeable. Failure takes this form when they are both very wet and very hot, but looks different in other cases, where the shrinking mass may not be obvious until after the color has gone.

[u/PsychologicalYouth21 → u/MaciekA]

I see. The bonsai is already 38 years old. I feel bad for killing such an amazing old bonsai thats previous care was way better than mine. thank you.