Juniper Bonsai Tree Turning Brown

Inspect your plant for the tell tale signs of mites such as a dusty or gray appearance caused by their webbing.

Juniper bonsai tree turning brown. Roots need oxygen to function and standing water in the soil will deny the bonsai s roots enough oxygen to stay healthy. Tips of the branches turn pale then red brown. Overwatering causes a tree s roots to drown and rot. In fall the older and inner foliage of most evergreen conifers eventually die and new ones take its place.

To stop juniper bushes from turning brown you ll need to treat them for the spider mites that have invaded. Junipers don t need water every day. Cutting new shoots often causes the surrounding foliage to turn brown at. In some cases overwatering can cause needles to turn brown.

Juniper bonsai trees aren t fans of scissors and knives but they need consistent pruning during the warm growing season. Regular potting mix is too dense and becomes compacted eventually suffocating the tree s roots. Without a healthy. You can stop a juniper bush from.

A blight on the juniper junipers are susceptible to twig and tip blights that cause the younger needles to turn brown and fall from the branches. Especially vulnerable when kept outside bonsai can develop infections such as root rot and brown leaf spot which can. While some browning is natural as a juniper ages quick browning like this is trouble. A typical bonsai soil is a mostly inorganic mixture of lava rock pumice fine gravel organic potting compost and a clay like soil called akadama.

Bagworms spider mites the fungal disease juniper tip blight and even dog urine cause the branches and twigs of the bush to lose their vibrant green color. But if the browning is too extensive it only means that you re dealing with a serious problem. Needles turning brown can be an indicator of improper watering. If there is only a small portion of the bonsai needles that turn brown on a juniper bonsai this can be a natural and normal process.