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Fri, Sep 8, 06 at 15:40
| I have a fukien tea that is approximately 12-15 years old that was given to me as a gift. Was wonderful for the first 6 months or so then two of the branches lost all its leaves and hasn't produced any new leaves (that survive) for about 4 months now but the rest of the tree is fine? The two weird branches try to start regrowth but the tiny leaves die within days. Can anyone help me and should I maybe prune those two branches off? It will throw the symetry of my tree off because one of them is a large defining branch but I don't want the rest of the tree to suffer. I figured if the whole tree dropped its leaves I'd just have a Charlie Brown Halloween looking tree lol. |
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| If all the other branches are fine and not showing signs of trouble, and you haven't figured out what's wrong with the first two, then I might consider cutting them because whatever it is, you don't want it to spread (if it is spreadable!). The symmetry as things stand now might be cockeyed, but then what can you 'see' in the tree without them that you could turn around to be maybe more interesting than it's been until now? Maybe a whole new direction, or style! |
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- Posted by sweetpolly711 (My Page) on Sat, Sep 9, 06 at 15:22
| Lucy 5 Thanks for the advice, we have no bonsai experts locally so I am pretty much on my own here lol. |
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| My Fukien Tea has three branches that I'm not sure about, the main branch comes up straight from the soil, then takes a 90 degree turn, then straight up, with a few small branches at the top. But there are three branches coming off of the main branch. First one right where it bends, and two others where the main branch goes straight up. It's in pretty good health with small leaves and flowers, but those two branches are bugging me, and I feel they should be gone. I bought this one at a big box store for $10.99, and looking on line one like this goes for over $500.00, did I get a good price? Wish I could post a photo of it here, but I don't see a link to upload it. Anyone? |
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