This is specially for Mario who was getting suspicious that I hadn’t posted any photos of his Itogawa Juniper.
Here you go mate. It was very slow this Spring and I felt a slightly larger pot than it was in would help give it a lift in this development stage. It’s now in the pot your black pine was in.
The Sacrifice branch is gone, it was putting a lot of effort into that and I felt it was better to push on with areas that were more important. As you can see, new growth is forthcoming.
You are getting a fair amount of juvenile foliage too but at least it’s healthy.
Bonsai Eejit 
Hello Ian, Is that juvenile growth? How do you deal with it?
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Leaving it for now Steve. Some suggest removal and this would be possible where it’s in the minority on the upper branches. However the lower branch was weaker and is now growing again, albeit with juvenile foliage. To remove that would be detrimental to the health of the branch. It’s meant to be caused by excessive removal of foliage and/or over feeding. It could be the food in this case. A learning curve, at least it’s not my tree 😉 Only joking Mario lol
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😉 Well, it does look a bit stressed but I am sure it will be fine in your capable hands Ian!
Thanks to your blog it is a learning curve to us all so bring it on and keep posting!
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Mario, got your delivery today! Absolutely no need but greatly appreciated all the same.
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I hope you get the desired growth soon! Keep me posted! I am curious!
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Will do, keep watching 🙂
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