Juniper is starting to dry out and brown.

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Is this too late to save?? I may have gone like a day too long or two without water? I have it in a shady spot in my backyard now and I’ve been misting the area for humidity and watered it this morning.
 

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Sadly, it is already dead, and it died a while ago. Conifers take a while to completely dry out after their roots die. The roots most commonly die from over-watering, over-fertilizing, or under-watering, but the impact on the tree and the appearance will be the same.
 

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Sadly, it is already dead, and it died a while ago. Conifers take a while to completely dry out after their roots die. The roots most commonly die from over-watering, over-fertilizing, or under-watering, but the impact on the tree and the appearance will be the same.
Awww man that really sucks was a birthday present. First one I’ve had that’s wasn’t substrate but soil so my watering was probably not right. I’m used to just being able to water as much as I want and not over watering because I use course substrate.
 

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Don't worry about it - happens to us all. The pot you were using didn't really have a large soil volume, and Rancho Cucamonga, in the summer, with the wind coming out of the desert... forget about it :)

Keep the pot, and you can replace the juniper with something else like a Chinese elm. Or simply get a new juniper from a nursery, and repot it into your birthday pot in the spring. Then you will know the soil is good. No one will be the wiser :)
 

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We all have killed trees when we were new.
Get another tree and try again
 
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