Hello again,
I just took a closer look at my Bonsai and all the branches are mostly dead at the begining of the branch. and the tips are bright green what do i do?

After pruneing

lcaswell wrote: I just took a closer look at my Bonsai and all the branches are mostly dead at the begining of the branch. and the tips are bright green what do i do?

What you should do first is stay in your own topic and don't create new ones for the same tree.

What you should do with your 'bonsai': Nothing. Don't prune or wire. Just take care of it and let it grow.
Are you keeping it inside ?

Oh... you already pruned. Sorry, but it does not seem to be an improvement.

Someone else told me that the brown branches are a waste on the tree and that I should cut them off so i did. and yes i'm keeping it inside

and i wasnt trying to shape it or anything? I was just trying to get the dead branches off

lcaswell wrote: and i wasnt trying to shape it or anything? I was just trying to get the dead branches off

Which dead branches though?

Just like trees with leaves drop their leaves at some point in time, so do junipers. The brwn stuff you see are dead needles. Branches that are brown with no green at the end are dead. Dead branches do not cost the plant anything.

You would remove them, to allow light & aircirculation in the inside of the plant. But branches that have green tips are stil growing. Getting brown foliage on the oldest parts is normal aging.

Bonmsai requires one main characteristic: Patience. When you post questions here, give the post a couple of days to see what answers come in. 3 persons might say 3 different things. Also, advice without having seen the tree is tricky.

in your case, you have a very young plant which, if you are truely serious about bonsai, will on the long term not be a plant you are going to keep. Use this as a practice tree. Read up on bonsai and decide in a few months which direction you want to take.

yes, i agree with everyone: leave it be for a few years or so. then you will have more of a tree to style.

If you are keeping this indoors it will probably die, it needs outdoors conditions to survive.

Dave

there are such things as indoor Bonsai and mine is one of those