Brown Tips Juniper

[YasukeBonsai]

Hi all, im very new to bonsai (as like 4-6 weeks in new). I bought 2 junipers from a bonsai nursery about 2 hours away about 3 weeks ago. Both seemed very healthy then.

I live just south of Atlanta in Georgia. I began pruning both of them around the same time 1 week ago just to see the structure of the trees. The trees live outside in full sun but we have gotten an absolute crap ton of rain recently. No real fluctuations in temperature however.

One of my trees has alot of brown tips while the other seems fantastic health. Any ideas on what may be wrong? And how i can may fix it. The soil seems to be well draining but i may be wrong because im an absolute noob.

I really hope the tree doesnt die but i understand it will happen to me at some point in this journey. It just motivates me further to really get into this seriously because im 25 and im determined to make this a lifelong hobby.

 

[YasukeBonsai]

Here is my second tree which seems to be in good health to my untrained eye. If you guys see anything wrong with this one as please let me know so i can avoid a similar fate

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

Weird, usually that kind of tip death is related to the roots drying out and dying.
With a shit ton of rain that's unlikely, did it get any?

You can take it out of the pot and visually check the soil, if you want, take a picture and post it here. It might help in figuring out what happened.

 

[YasukeBonsai]

It’s definitely caught alot of that rain, no doubt about it. Will do what you said and send a picture later today or tomorrow

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

It could be, that the nursery let it dry a little too much and you're dealing with the fallout. Did you get it from an indoor section perhaps? Because that's usually a killer environment for junipers but it takes about a month for that damage to show.

 

[YasukeBonsai]

It could be, that the nursery let it dry a little too much and you're dealing with the fallout. Did you get it from an indoor section perhaps? Because that's usually a killer environment for junipers but it takes about a month for that damage to show.

It’s possible i could be dealing with fallout but no it was outdoors, it was raining when i got it actually lol

 

[Balbs]

Im not an expert but I had something similar last year and somebody here told me it was tip blight. I cut off every tip that was infected (took forever), dipping my pruners in alcohol between every cut. Treated with fungicide. It’s fine now.

 

[Balbs]

 

[YasukeBonsai]

Im not an expert but I had something similar last year and somebody here told me it was tip blight. I cut off every tip that was infected (took forever), dipping my pruners in alcohol between every cut. Treated with fungicide. It’s fine now.

Ok I will read up on it as much as possible tonight, tell you what i find tomorrow. Lets see what others say and if tip blight seems to be the case will do it tomorrow asap

 

[Robstark]

I would also agree, that Junipers show reactions usually late - so i would also guess that they react to something that actually happened before you got them. Also, when it rains sometimes we as people think it was a lot of rain, but it just made the surface wet. Did it really rain so much, that it came out of the bottom of the pot?

 

[YasukeBonsai]

Weird, usually that kind of tip death is related to the roots drying out and dying.
With a shit ton of rain that's unlikely, did it get any?

You can take it out of the pot and visually check the soil, if you want, take a picture and post it here. It might help in figuring out what happened.

Heres a pictures of the soil when out the pot

 

[YasukeBonsai]

Weird, usually that kind of tip death is related to the roots drying out and dying.
With a shit ton of rain that's unlikely, did it get any?

You can take it out of the pot and visually check the soil, if you want, take a picture and post it here. It might help in figuring out what happened.

Heres a pictures of the soil when out the pot

 

[YasukeBonsai]

I would also agree, that Junipers show reactions usually late - so i would also guess that they react to something that actually happened before you got them. Also, when it rains sometimes we as people think it was a lot of rain, but it just made the surface wet. Did it really rain so much, that it came out of the bottom of the pot?

This is a good take possibly. Because that really could be the case. I really feel like it got water because it literally thunderstormed for hours multiple days. Also the other juniper doing ok makes its so weird but the rain couldves just deflected off the foilage mostly.

 

[YasukeBonsai]

Let me know if you guys think the soil looks dry, ill read about tip blight tonight and decide what to do in the morning.

Thank you guys so much!

 

[Shibui]

but the rain couldves just deflected off the foilage mostly.

This is a definite possibility. Dense foliage and small diameter pot means much of the rain runs off the foliage like a shingle roof. Sometimes very little actually reaches the soil in the pot. Not sure that would apply to thunderstorm rainfall though. Usually enough gets through the branches to wet the pot.
Thunderstorms are usually short lived. What watering regime do you use between showers?
The soil looks excellent- well draining so highly unlikely to be overwatering. In any case, overwatering takes weeks or months to kill enough roots to affect the foliage. Dry roots only takes a few hours to achieve the same effect. Really open soil can dry out in hours so a couple of dry days between rain showers might be enough to dehydrate a tree but not sure why one would be affected but not the other which is presumably in similar soil and conditions.

I would also agree, that Junipers show reactions usually late - so i would also guess that they react to something that actually happened before you got them.

This is another very likely reason for the foliage damage.

Best you can do now is continue care and see what happens.

BTW, add your location to your personal profile so it pops up every time you post. Saves us having to scroll all the way back to initial post to check on location and saves you having to type it each time.

 

[YasukeBonsai]

Yes it seems that would be my best course of action, to increase the watering regime ans hope the best. From what i read tip blight seems a bit unlikely

 

[YasukeBonsai]

BTW, add your location to your personal profile so it pops up every time you post. Saves us having to scroll all the way back to initial post to check on location and saves you having to type it each time.

How do i do this exactly, im not quite seeing the option to do that in profile settings

 

[YasukeBonsai]

How do i do this exactly, im not quite seeing the option to do that in profile settings

Disregard i found it

 

[Brain Treez]

Are the tips dry and crunchy? They honestly resemble the healthy growing tips of some of my J. horizontalis.