Need help diagnosing Juniper procumbens issue.

[Lewis_]

Tree is losing interior foliage and getting leggy. Assuming it’s an issue with water/light/pests.

Virginia, zone 8. In full sun in bonsai mix which contains some organics, in an 8” terracotta pot.

 

[Paradox]

Normal. Junipers will shed old foliage

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

Agreed, this is the time of year (middle summer and after) where conifers like pines and junipers start dropping their old and very weak foliage.
No reason for concern, unless you see healthy foliage doing the same.

 

[Lewis_]

Agreed, this is the time of year (middle summer and after) where conifers like pines and junipers start dropping their old and very weak foliage.
No reason for concern, unless you see healthy foliage doing the same.

Tips look green and happy. Getting some back budding up into the joints. All foliage is needled, none of the soft mature foliage that these can develop over time.

It just looks very thin to me, but I am admittedly new to the process.

 

[Deleted member 47471]

They should back bud readily but also consider branches that get too long and leggy can push foliage far away from the tree. Your trunk is thick but many/most branches have foliage a great distance from the trunk. You could likely make cut backs and focus in smaller and younger branches to become your structural branches.

This juniper is very much in the young and early development stage so you should be able to make structure branches over time and then get secondary branching off of those branches.