I don't know what is wrong with this bonsai. It was doing well and now it looks like it's dying! Does it have bugs? Too much water? Too little water? The branches are turning & will fall off sometimes if I touch some of the & if you look closely it looks like little white spots are on the leaves. Thanks for any help. Lisa

lsherack wrote:

I don't know what is wrong with this bonsai. It was doing well and now it looks like it's dying! Does it have bugs? Too much water? Too little water? The branches are turning & will fall off sometimes if I touch some of the & if you look closely it looks like little white spots are on the leaves. Thanks for any help. Lisa

Heavy infection of Scale. Looks like it's too late for this plant - which is a young juniper in a pot, not a bonsai.

You could try spraying with chemicals against scale.

scale? or spidermite?

scale? or is it spidermite? cannot tell. in any case use the search function

leatherback wrote:

scale? or is it spidermite? cannot tell. in any case use the search function

I thought I recognized the "little white spots" but when looking again, indeed... can't tell.

Thank you for this information. I will do a search on scale & spidermites.

Just something I found out the other day when I bought some juniper material, and I'm sure leatherback or auk may or may not know if this is right. The lady knows her stuff.

There was another juniper there that had just a few white spots and she showed me incase it happened on mine. She took a paintbrush and using methylated spirits brushed the affected area. Meths as we know evaporates so I'm sure it does no damage to the foliage?

I noticed some brown sections on another I got tonight. It's merely material but would it be worth me cutting away any affected areas to be sure? There's not much and I didn't spot any white spots (bit it is late lol) I will look better tommorrow when it's light. At first I assumed it could be down to it being so dense that this foliage is not receiving any sunlight.

If there are a few then meths is the easy way, if there are lot it takes much longer and you need to look every 10 days or so incase more have hatched.