Beng
Omono
Stressed Itoigawa Shimpaku
So this past thursday morning i put out a fresh batch of organic fertilizer on my junipers. When I got home from work thursday night I looked out at my yard in horror to see my neighbors cat on my bench wrapped around its trunk upside down in heaven. It must have liked the smell of the fresh fertilizer there was some fish emulsion in this batch. I opened the door and yelled at the cat, to which their fat cat rolled over lost it's balance and took the Kifu sized shimpaku down with it. It knocked the pot off the chest high bench. The pot fell broke into several pieces and the tree fell out, the pot alone was 200 dollars don't even ask how much the tree was! It was repotted this spring so it had yet to fill out its new soil and pot. I immediately put it in a bath to soak for an hour and filled a new pot with fresh soil, then placed the tree in there without touching the roots. I gently situated the soil around the rootball with a chopstick, watered the tree, and put it back out on it's bench. A little under a week later and the foliage is sagging and turning a yellowish cast some parts are looking a little brown. I've been misting it several times a day since then because of the trauma, usually i don't mist or water the foliage more then once a week on my shimpakus. We've been having a heat wave for 2 days now with temps around 95 and bright sun and will continue till next week, i'm thinking of moving it to partial shade under a 30% shade cloth. I might also bring it in at night so the roots can cool from the warm days we're having. Although i've never done that before when repotting junipers mid spring. I think this old tree may not make it definitely doesn't look good, anyone have any juniper saving magic tips for trees the neighborhood pets decimated? The cat had the nerve to turn around and look at me like I disturbed it's fun and it couldn't believe I yelled at it and made it fall.... I just might kill that cat!
So this past thursday morning i put out a fresh batch of organic fertilizer on my junipers. When I got home from work thursday night I looked out at my yard in horror to see my neighbors cat on my bench wrapped around its trunk upside down in heaven. It must have liked the smell of the fresh fertilizer there was some fish emulsion in this batch. I opened the door and yelled at the cat, to which their fat cat rolled over lost it's balance and took the Kifu sized shimpaku down with it. It knocked the pot off the chest high bench. The pot fell broke into several pieces and the tree fell out, the pot alone was 200 dollars don't even ask how much the tree was! It was repotted this spring so it had yet to fill out its new soil and pot. I immediately put it in a bath to soak for an hour and filled a new pot with fresh soil, then placed the tree in there without touching the roots. I gently situated the soil around the rootball with a chopstick, watered the tree, and put it back out on it's bench. A little under a week later and the foliage is sagging and turning a yellowish cast some parts are looking a little brown. I've been misting it several times a day since then because of the trauma, usually i don't mist or water the foliage more then once a week on my shimpakus. We've been having a heat wave for 2 days now with temps around 95 and bright sun and will continue till next week, i'm thinking of moving it to partial shade under a 30% shade cloth. I might also bring it in at night so the roots can cool from the warm days we're having. Although i've never done that before when repotting junipers mid spring. I think this old tree may not make it definitely doesn't look good, anyone have any juniper saving magic tips for trees the neighborhood pets decimated? The cat had the nerve to turn around and look at me like I disturbed it's fun and it couldn't believe I yelled at it and made it fall.... I just might kill that cat!
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