Is this growth cedar apple rust or a witches broom?
I am guessing cedar apple rust but I have never heard of that on a procumbens juniper
Thanks in advance for your help!!
Sorry to say it is cedar apple rust. My own recommendation is isolating and getting rid of the tree. Or risk infection of other junipers in your collection.I have just lost a Sabina juniper to it. I have been wiring more and more movement into it over the last few years. It had been in a well ventilated greenhouse all winter to protect it from excess rain and 4!days after I moved it outside, the first rain we had had in 3 weeks it erupted all over the tree.
Get rid of it.
There’s no cure, I had a cedar with this issue and I had to throw it out.
Wow
OK thanks for the info
Same thing here it was in a super well ventilated shed with a heater set to 34 degrees Fahrenheit for the cold winter.
They went outside a little more than a week ago.
It has been raining here and boom it just grew in a short amount of time.
Probably the entire lot is effected..
Guess I’ll be cutting down the wife’s crabapple trees asap
So I got the saw out to chop down the crabapples only to look down the street and see at least 3 more in my neighborhood.
Flowering crabapple is a common ornamental tree here in the Northern Vermont…
Tomorrow I will drive around and take a peek, what I read is any tree within 2 miles could be an issue.
This is the first time I have ever see this in my area, but I did get two Eastern Red Cedar bonsai last summer so I wonder if the spores have spread to the other junipers & cedars..
Darn I really like these junipers.
I have researched some organics that may help with preventing it to occur but I am past that point, this year..
It’s like a scene straight out of The Last Of Us! 
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