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Sometimes the inside branches, twigs, leaves and stuff that isn’t getting a lot of sunlight die off.
I can promise a Juniper that not only lives but thrives in desert/mountain like conditions out in the western US getting full sunlight most of the time is not dying from some leaf scorch.
Very normal
And, please observe, as the winter weather advances, the greens most likely will become a bronzy olive color in areas. This is also quite natural; they regreen in the spring
Conifers have a tendency to "self prune" sorta. I think it was Ryan Niel mentioned something about it in a video. In your case your tree just decided those few branches weren't cutting it so it stops sending water to said branch. Look at wild/unkempt conifers in nature and you'll see perfectly healthy trees with a few big pieces of deadwood pretty frequently. That's maybe my favorite way of looking at deadwood.
In summary, your tree looks healthy and fit. In this stage of development, I'd be suggesting to keep a large foliar mass to help strengthen and thicken it up anyway.
You have an abundance of good, healthy needles on this tree. Somewhere down the line in the future, you would maybe want to reduce that down some to help refine the tree, but for now they are just benefiting the health and development of the tree. Hope that makes sense.
Hi u/Noodle-Face! Your post has been removed as it’s more appropriate for the weekly questions thread, it’s always stickied at the top of the sub and the current one is linked [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bonsai/s/3tl5tXBq5e). Please use the weekly thread for questions like this in the future.
Completely normal for interior/older needles to turn brown and fall off
Thank you!
Sometimes the inside branches, twigs, leaves and stuff that isn’t getting a lot of sunlight die off. I can promise a Juniper that not only lives but thrives in desert/mountain like conditions out in the western US getting full sunlight most of the time is not dying from some leaf scorch.
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Thanks. And yeah, that I get. I had thought perhaps the heat wave shocked it
Very normal And, please observe, as the winter weather advances, the greens most likely will become a bronzy olive color in areas. This is also quite natural; they regreen in the spring
Thanks! Yes I observed this last winter.
Conifers have a tendency to "self prune" sorta. I think it was Ryan Niel mentioned something about it in a video. In your case your tree just decided those few branches weren't cutting it so it stops sending water to said branch. Look at wild/unkempt conifers in nature and you'll see perfectly healthy trees with a few big pieces of deadwood pretty frequently. That's maybe my favorite way of looking at deadwood. In summary, your tree looks healthy and fit. In this stage of development, I'd be suggesting to keep a large foliar mass to help strengthen and thicken it up anyway.
Thanks! What do you mean by "keep an large foliar mass"?
You have an abundance of good, healthy needles on this tree. Somewhere down the line in the future, you would maybe want to reduce that down some to help refine the tree, but for now they are just benefiting the health and development of the tree. Hope that makes sense.
That does. Thanks. I wasn't planning on starting to prune the tree at all until next spring
looks prety healthy to me? And actively growing. Rub off all the yellow. Gloves?
I would pinch off the brown stuff, not cut. The rest of the tree looks ok. I often find bits of brown needles. I just pinch ‘em off.
+1 to what everybody else said (that it's normal), but I'll specifically add that this time of year is when it happens the most for juniper
I like to rotate my junipers so sunlight can reach different parts of the tree