Did the juniper already have a winter rest?

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I'd have to agree with the naysayers but if it's cheap and you want to give it a shot, go for it... After all, we learn (hopefully) from each experience.
 

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All this expressed need to have something to work on in winter is exactly why I introduced the bonsai world to Figs.
 

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Duluth, Minnesota northern Minnesota is zone 3 . 3a 3b can’t remember
Duluth?? We used to do boundary waters in the summer, can only imagine your Winters..
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I’m fairly new to the game, but I new it was iffy bringing it home this time of year. I have learned a ton and mistakes will be made. Mistakes are good for learning. I have a ficus microcarpa, and an evergreen azalea. But would be nice to get something else to work with during the 5 month winters we have. What else is suitable for indoor?
 

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You might research a Chinese elm, bring indoors for the worst of your Winters. May drop its leaves, but they're cool looking without leaves.

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I’m fairly new to the game, but I new it was iffy bringing it home this time of year. I have learned a ton and mistakes will be made. Mistakes are good for learning. I have a ficus microcarpa, and an evergreen azalea. But would be nice to get something else to work with during the 5 month winters we have. What else is suitable for indoor?
Natal plum does well indoors in winter.
 

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There are more than enough fig varieties to keep you busy, and they're all easy to manage as houseplants. Choose an appearance you like and voilà, there's a fig like that!
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Left to right above: 'Too Little', Tigerbark, 'Too Little' variegated, Green Island, Golden Benjamin, Burt Davii, 'Too Little' var. 'Dutch Treat', Green Mound, Oriental, and 'Too Little' variegata. All bulletproof. And, there are many more!
 

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I was being blunt because most of the responses were from people in mild climates. Duluth can reach -40 F, which is about -40 C, the point both systems converge. Now you have not had that cold recently, but it is possible. Even though winter has been mild, it could return to "normal" for a few days yet this year.

A juniper will adapt to cold if given time. Your southern USA raised tree would be fine next year in the garage, maybe buried and mulched in the ground next year. It takes between 2 and 3 months of steadily declining night temperatures to make the metabolic changes for winter hardiness. Higher sugars and more resins in sap, less water in cells, especially meristem cells, and so on. Take a Florida juniper and expose it suddenly to 22 F, -6 C, and you can kill it. This is why I recommend window sill for the remaining winter.
 

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As for indoors for winter, light set up or window sills, and outside for summer, there are hundreds of good species. Most really prefer an outside summer stint to get a burst of vigorous growth.

Can't beat Ficus. I really have had good luck with pomegranate. I would summer it outside, let it get a light frost, but don't freeze the roots. Winter in a cold dark well house, between 32 F and 40 F, then no matter what, it would start to wake up in February. Move to lights set up until safe to go outside. Kept it going 39 years that way. It would survive going from back yard to lights set up, but I got more vigorous growth with the added cold dormant spell.

Gewia - purple star flower, is popular for indoors in winter, as are any member of Eugenia, the brush cherries. I've had fun with Fuchsia, they get woody eventually, a good clip and grow bonsai.

And of course Ficus
 

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We had 30 degree days last week.... and tonight will be below 0 . Appreciate the feedback. I’m a little worried about my jm in the garage. I have his pot insulated, but it’s my first winter as a tree enthusiast. Maybe I should put him in the eaves? ( attic/ ventilation passages) it was 29 degrees in there and plenty of airflow.
 

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I just used one to build a cage.

I have a flower place down the block with a greenhouse, I'll bet they'd let me keep it there iffin I asked. You have any place like that by you?

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Picture of the cage please!
Actually, there is a florist around here. More of a nursery / florist. But my winters are mild enough that I think that protecting my trees by putting them along side the house will be enough.
 

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I’m fairly new to the game, but I new it was iffy bringing it home this time of year. I have learned a ton and mistakes will be made. Mistakes are good for learning. I have a ficus microcarpa, and an evergreen azalea. But would be nice to get something else to work with during the 5 month winters we have. What else is suitable for indoor?
.....any photo of the tree they say is doomed?...

another thought, can you not just dig a hole and put it in the ground...then get a cheap clear tub and put over it?

may’ve got the tub madness
 

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.....any photo of the tree they say is doomed?...

another thought, can you not just dig a hole and put it in the ground...then get a cheap clear tub and put over it?

may’ve got the tub madness
I’ve got my JM in a second bigger pot, with the area between filled with sphagmum for insulation. Then both pots in a tote lined with more. Forcast is getting down to -5 midweek.... and the garage only stays about 10 degrees F more than outside. Best way to protect roots?
 

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I’ve got my JM in a second bigger pot, with the area between filled with sphagmum for insulation. Then both pots in a tote lined with more. Forcast is getting down to -5 midweek.... and the garage only stays about 10 degrees F more than outside. Best way to protect roots?
Bury it...put a dome over, next to warm home, Hvac...-40.....you should listen to Leo, that man is brilliantly honest and beyond knowledgeable. He has saved my trees and honestly in a roundabout way, made me a better person.
I live in Tennessee....there are two snowmen across the street presently but a week ago people were wearing shorts.

Double tub in garage, top tub clear plastic dome, blasted with lights, mist foliage, soil not too wet....don’t let em tell you it’s dead till it’s dead!

....still no photos of tree
 

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Tubthumpin’
this is going to really fuck up my recommended algorithm
 

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My phone sucks for pictures
 

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I kinda thought you'd be a free-range kind of guy.
 
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