Juniper Bonsai Losing Needles: Indoors vs Outdoors

Juniper bonsai 3 months; cycles of green then brown needles; chopstick test shows soil dry next day. Kept indoors?

Critical: Juniper Must Be Outdoors

• Full sun, wind, rain, seasonal dormancy.
• Indoors = slow death (low light, dry air, no dormancy).
• Daily watering likely needed outdoors in growing season.

Recovery

1. Move outdoors immediately (full sun).
2. Water when top 1/2 in. dry (daily in summer).
3. Download Juniper care guide from Learning2Bonsai.

If all needles brown and brittle, tree may be dead. Green cambium under bark = hope.