# My spruce is loosing branches! Please help!

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**Category:** Horticulture\
**Created:** [April 16, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/my-spruce-is-loosing-branches-please-help/5654 "2020-04-16T09:55:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![WelshBarry](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.bonsaimirai.com/welshbarry/32/10567_2.png) [@WelshBarry](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/u/WelshBarry)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/my-spruce-is-loosing-branches-please-help/5654/3 "2020-04-16T13:23:56Z")

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> [@Thanks for the skills mirai crew raising\_hands](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/thanks-for-the-skills-mirai-crew/4919):
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> I’ve just finished 6 hour of nervously potting my favourite spruce on my first full moss/akadama walled slab after engrossing myself for weeks in those streams. Both the stone and tree were collected locally within 200 ft of each other. Thanks you mirai crew for sharing the knowledge, I would have never have been able to achieve this without mirai oncoming_fist[DSC\_5941] [DSC\_5942] [DSC\_5949] [DSC\_5950] [DSC\_5952] [DSC\_5953] [DSC\_5954] [DSC\_5957] [IMG\_20200124\_172937\_246] [DSC\_5966]

Thanks 👍 I put photos up of the repot in a post the links above, it was 2nd reppoting from yamadori so removed some old inner field soil and had new exterior roots which was great I thought for the slab. It’s mostly akadama with thick sphagnum /akadama walls, the moss has taken well which I assume means it has dried out much. I FEEL LIKE IT SHOULD GO IN THE SHADE BUT DONT WANT THAT TO BE THE NAIL IN THE COFFIN, I COULD GIVE IT ROOT HEAT IN THE SHADE?

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