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I concur Arnold, thank you. Any thoughts on styling? -Michael

Your tree looks like it has potential for a nice cascade style bonsai.

A few more photos of the tree, it's foliage and berries.

As a general systemic fungicide, propaconazole has been my go-to in treating fungal infections in palms, orchids, bromeliads and other plants so I figured it might work to prevent a fungal infection in a juniper as well. I will take your recommendations and try the safer options you mention...

Thank you Wires_Guy_wires, the above provides me with a lot of helpful information on junipers in particular, which is exactly what I am looking for. I am going to give my tree a prophylactic fungicide (propaconazole) treatment today with some fish emulsion to give it a gentle boost. I assume...

In that case I will erect a bench in full sun by the lake (the only truly all-day, full-sun location I have in my grandma's yard, I live in an apartment) and put it there today, anchor the pot in place because it gets windy and let my juniper recover there. I have read before that in fresh...

Bump... If this is recommended, I would like to do this work tomorrow. Thank you in advance. -Michael

After removing 2/3 of the root system during repotting, should I remove some of the top growth to balance things out or would it be better to leave the tree alone this year and let it recover in the shade for a couple weeks(without removing any growth)?

When I resided in Pennsylvania, I had the same issue with Akadama; it turned to VERY finely particled clay and dust after one season. The problem was, more than once I thought I had ordered (my mom ordered it for me once too) hard-fired Double Red Line Akadama and it was not actually the...

Thank you for the input on substrate Wires_Guy_wires. Yeah, I was going to order a bag of hard-fired Akadama but cheaped out. I will make sure to repot this tree in February-ish of 2023 so the Vermiculite hopefully won't have time to break down. I switched from Perlite to Vermiculite last...

Two more photos as I worked with the root ball...

Good evening all, I haven't posted in a couple years. I was living in SE Pennsylvania but I relocated back to the Orlando area in 2019. I have a couple tropical bonsai in desperate need of work but when I visited a local nursery a couple weeks ago, Green's Nursery, they had some nice juniper...

There is at least one vendor online that has several (like 5-10) unusual A. buergerianum varieties. Let me to find them and I post the sources.

This actually turned out to be an excellent year for fall color in this part of SE PA. Later than the long term norm, yes, but that seems to be becoming the new norm(?).