名媛直播

Hi all, I apologize in advance for the length of this message. I’m very new to bonsai, I just got my first tree about a week ago, a Japanese needle Juniper. Im not sure how old it is (my guess is about a year) it’s about 2 inches tall, the trunk is quite thin, and was full of leaves this morning.

I live in southern Louisiana where the summers are scorching and it’s always humid and the winters are just as humid and the lows are 30 degrees Fahrenheit.

For the past week that I’ve owned my tree I've watered it about 3 times and had it inside my house on a slightly sunny windowsill, no growth has occurred. It was in a pot about the size of my fist, and yesterday I noticed the leaves were starting to turn yellow and the roots were poking out the top of the pot.

Today I decided it was time to repot the tree and so I found a ceramic pot about 3 times bigger than the old pot and drilled a small hole in the bottom, and mixed some gardening soil with perlite, peat moss, and palm tree fertilizer (purely because it speeds up growth of all plants without producing flowers)

Then as I pulled the tree out of the old pot I noticed the soil was quite muddy towards the bottom and the roots were very packed together so I lightly roughed up the roots without damaging them or trimming them, and then placed a little osmocote plus on the layer of soil where I laid the tree then proceeded to fill in the pot with soil and then put a small layer of black sand on top souly because it looks cool.

Finally i watered it slightly and placed it in a spot outside where it should get about 4 hours of morning sun then getting indirect sun for the rest of the day.?

Then I decided about 4 hours after re-potting to prune the leaves. I pruned about 35% of all the leaves, including all dead and yellow leaves and leaves growing underneath the main branch annd shaped the tree without using wire, and put it back in the spot I had it.?

Im afraid that after all of those things occurring within 8 hours that I may have over stressed the tree and killed it. Currently the tree looks alive but I know they tend to die slowly. Did I kill it?

All pictures were taken about 4 hours after pruning and 10 hours after re-potting.

名媛直播 is a maraton, not a sprint. Wait at least one year after getting a new tree until starting working on it. But only if the tree is healthy. If not wait another year. Always do the work at the right time of the year and wait one year between repotting and heavy pruning.

Those are the basics and you did all of them wrong. But I do not think that caused this fast decline in health. I believe it is massively overfertilized and the roots is suffering from amonia burn. On top of that a soil that is heavy on organics and never dry out and give them a break from the burn.

Sorry, I do not know how to fix it. 名媛直播 is about patience and maintaining health. Not about rushing away, damaging the tree and trying to recover. None of do that so not much experience here.

Teoretically, there are two ways to get rid of the ammonia. Heavy watering, I mean really heavy. That is 100s of liters that flush constantly. However osmocote is slow release so I am not sure it helps. And heavy organic soil binds ammonia well which also makes it hard. The other is to manually remove the ammonia. That takes another repotting. Both actions is very stressful for the tree and can very well be the action that makes it ready for composting.

Thank you so much for your response, and I understand that I will probably have to start again with a new tree, since yesterday’s post the trees health has visibly declined and I feel so bad about doing that. Thank you for the response and I will be sure to never let this happen again in the future