July 30, 2017: Junipers

July 1

July 1

Well I lost two of the baby junipers, to spider mites. About a month ago I started to address the increasing browning of the junipers. I did some research, did the white-paper-under-while-shaking test (technically I flicked them), and saw little red things moving on the paper.

After some more research I tried blasting the twerps off with water, repeating every two days. This did the trick with two, but I think the others were too far gone.

NOTE: hold trunks to anchor while blasting.

I also started doing a better job of keeping them watered, as they are more susceptible when under duress from not enough water. I actually worried that I was over watering them, because I watered often and always left much water in the tray, as an effort to contribute higher humidity.

Obviously it was not a problem.

They are both lusher and thicker.

Today I repotted the one in the blue pot (the smaller juniper) because Winston cracked the pot (a while back) and I wanted to keep the soil from escaping.