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my bonsai is dying
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beth2345 (
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Fri, Apr 30, 10 at 8:49
| Hi, i know i shouldnt post this on someone elses post but i dont really understand this website. my bonsai tree, used to be fine, it was on a windowsill watered about once a week and the leaves were green and shoots were growing, then the leaves started to wilt so i watered it and normally they spring back up, but they havent and now the green leaves are starting to fall off. im really worried. please help. (this is my first bonsai, not much idea what im doing) |
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RE: my bonsai is dying
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| I don't have very much info but your tree probably doesn't belong inside, 99% of bonsai don't. Is it a tree that is supposed to drop it's leaves in the winter, and did it last winter? |
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| What KIND of tree is it? There are hundreds it could be and it matters! Though it may well be a tropical "indoor" tree and I wouldn't assume it belongs outside. |
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| i only got it in february so i wouldnt know if it normally drops its leaves in winter. its a chinese elm |
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| Yes, they drop leaves in winter. Josh |
RE: my bonsai is dying
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| You could know a lot more about it if you do some research, and a good place for basics would be www.bonsai4me.com. It is important, because you can't treat it like a houseplant. It cannot stay in what is probably cheap "potting soil" as that's full of peat and holds water too long, rotting roots, so you need to investigate what good bonsai mix components are for Chinese elm (Ulmus parvifolia), as well as whether it should be indoors at all where you live - where do you live? And when you should be repotting (not whenever you feel like it), which means possible root trimming, and how to do it. And especially how to water once repotting is done it's in a different mix, or until it is, which will be different. And how much light, when, it should be getting and how to deal with it in winter, again depending on where you live. Bonsai is a large subject, not something you can just pick up from a few internet tips. |
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| i live in england, yorkshire. Im not saying its not a large subject, i didnt get a bonsai as a sport... its just a plant. Its in the soil that it came in. It was okay, now its not.I've tried putting it outside and bringing it in at night. see what happens i guess, |
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| Bad idea I'm afraid. Plants are programmed to be cooler at night and it will also miss the cool humidity and breezes of night time. Why not let it be what it is - a tree geared to live outside in your climate, even if it needs a bit of help in winter? |
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okay so i shouldnt leave it outside? even though it looks like its dead.
it has no leaves now, its may its not winter anymore. think i should just settle that its dead? |
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It must be outside.
If it is going to live, that'll be the only way. Josh |
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| Make a firm little scratch halfway up the trunk - if the color under the bark is fairly bright green, it's alive (so give it time), if it's brown or white, then it's dead. |
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