Struggling juniper needs help

[Desaz]

All of a sudden over the last two weeks my Juniper has started looking ill.
It gets watered as usual. It gets fed every other week.
I think it wants to be repotted as it looks like it’s crawling out of its pot.
I think I need to repot it. I need to use the same pot as I don’t have a new one to put it in.
What else might be wrong and what can I do?

 

[leatherback]

rootball could be too dry. Have you lifted it to see whether the water is actually take up?

 

[cheap_walmart_art]

The couple times mine have done that out of the blue it’s been a spider mite issue. Take a white piece of paper and put it under the tree and whack a few of the branches over it with your palm. Examine the paper you may see tons of specks like pepper. If you then smear those specks you will see what look like tiny blood streaks. If that’s the case you have spider mites and they’re sucking the life out of your juniper. If the mite test comes clean then start troubleshooting other things.

Some of it looks like normal dieback of interior foliage but it is weird that you have individual branches browning like that.

 

[Desaz]

The couple times mine have done that out of the blue it’s been a spider mite issue. Take a white piece of paper and put it under the tree and whack a few of the branches over it with your palm. Examine the paper you may see tons of specks like pepper. If you then smear those specks you will see what look like tiny blood streaks. If that’s the case you have spider mites and they’re sucking the life out of your juniper. If the mite test comes clean then start troubleshooting other things.

Some of it looks like normal dieback of interior foliage but it is weird that you have individual branches browning like that.

Thank you! Gonna do that test now!!

 

[Desaz]

rootball could be too dry. Have you lifted it to see whether the water is actually take up?

I have not lifted it yet but I think I may have a combo of problems. Gonna lift it now to check. Thank you!