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I bought a bonsai about 2 months ago in the middle of July in Berlin and I moved it to Canada about a week later, it's a privet, and I'm keeping as an indoor tree. Everything was fine up until about 2 weeks ago where I noticed a lot of leafage yellowing and falling from the tree. I've been doing nothing different from when I'd just bought it and it was doing great up until then. Watering it once a day in the morning with a nice syringe pump I bought at the bonsai store, fertilizing it about every two weeks like the shop owners had said, with this organic fertilizer ''flux fertilizer''. Then last week I noticed some weird yellowish amberish brownish bubbly substance on the soil, after sending multiple pictures to the people at the store they said it was just algae, nothing serious or deadly to the tree. They asked me to take pictures of the tree from various angles assuring me that everything is fine and that the tree is probably just ''following nature and that it seems to them from the pictures that it might just be foliage being replaced by new growth. This morning though, I've noticed that in the pictures I sent them a while ago, the tree was a lot ''fuller'' and so I'm starting to get worried. No one is really helping out, they've asked me a few question which I pasted the responses to here:
''How do you water the root system, does it get dipped in water or normally watered? Normally watered; I use one of the green pear-shaped syringe pumps you sell in the shop.
How often does the plant need water? I water it in the morning, once a day usually, sometimes twice but usually the soil feels wet enough that I just mist the leaves.
how often do you fertilise? Once every two weeks. With the vita flux fertilizer.
how far is the plant from the first light source? The plant is at a windowsill facing north east - it gets good light in the morning but after it isn't so direct for the rest of the day.
are there brown spots on the leaves? Noticed a few spots.
I haven't heard anything since except other than they think the brown spots might be a small fungal infection, but they haven't recommended anything further. One thing I thought was ''oh maybe because Fall is coming'', but its been super hot here in Montreal, like 30degrees celcius. Yes days, are getting shorter, and also, it was cold for like a week (but nothing radical like never below 15celcius) but I doubt that would be a problem. Looking for help here, hope it doesn't die. Here are responses from the store owners.
''Thanks for your email,
Ive Seen the picture you shot from below and i could recognise that some of the leaves are yellowing.
There could be many reasons for that. Since the overall impression i had looking at the tree is quite healthy, it could be a minor issue
I have some questions:
How do you water the root system, does it get dipped in water or normally watered?
How often does the plant need water?
how often do you fertilise?
how far is the plant from the first light source?
are there brown spots on the leaves?
could you please send a picture of the whole tree from above?
it is for me difficult to suggest a product from outside the European market because there are substantial differences on the product range available. any wide spectrum insecticide or acaricide for indoor or decorative plants would do, just the only products i know refer to the European market unfortunately
thanks a lot''
''Dear jesse,
I looked very carefully at this tree.
It's a general rule that given constant conditions, the total leaves surface stays the same-
It's actually a good news, your tree is healthy-
Of course there could be hights and lows, especially in case of a bonsai- it takes usually a decade to learn the proper techniques-
What stays the same is the total amount of green, given the same amount of roots, light and nourishment-
It means when the plant gets new branches, old leaves ( or random preexistent leaves) will yellow and fall.
Its the old thing about perpetual growth, plants in a pot cannot. It comes to a point some parts die while others grow.
I think it's the case with your privet, it's following nature.
It could be repotted to grow a step bigger-
If you like, we offer workshops on this and other topics
Best regards ''
''How do you water the root system, does it get dipped in water or normally watered? Normally watered; I use one of the green pear-shaped syringe pumps you sell in the shop.
How often does the plant need water? I water it in the morning, once a day usually, sometimes twice but usually the soil feels wet enough that I just mist the leaves.
how often do you fertilise? Once every two weeks. With the vita flux fertilizer.
how far is the plant from the first light source? The plant is at a windowsill facing north east - it gets good light in the morning but after it isn't so direct for the rest of the day.
are there brown spots on the leaves? Noticed a few spots.
I haven't heard anything since except other than they think the brown spots might be a small fungal infection, but they haven't recommended anything further. One thing I thought was ''oh maybe because Fall is coming'', but its been super hot here in Montreal, like 30degrees celcius. Yes days, are getting shorter, and also, it was cold for like a week (but nothing radical like never below 15celcius) but I doubt that would be a problem. Looking for help here, hope it doesn't die. Here are responses from the store owners.
''Thanks for your email,
Ive Seen the picture you shot from below and i could recognise that some of the leaves are yellowing.
There could be many reasons for that. Since the overall impression i had looking at the tree is quite healthy, it could be a minor issue
I have some questions:
How do you water the root system, does it get dipped in water or normally watered?
How often does the plant need water?
how often do you fertilise?
how far is the plant from the first light source?
are there brown spots on the leaves?
could you please send a picture of the whole tree from above?
it is for me difficult to suggest a product from outside the European market because there are substantial differences on the product range available. any wide spectrum insecticide or acaricide for indoor or decorative plants would do, just the only products i know refer to the European market unfortunately
thanks a lot''
''Dear jesse,
I looked very carefully at this tree.
It's a general rule that given constant conditions, the total leaves surface stays the same-
It's actually a good news, your tree is healthy-
Of course there could be hights and lows, especially in case of a bonsai- it takes usually a decade to learn the proper techniques-
What stays the same is the total amount of green, given the same amount of roots, light and nourishment-
It means when the plant gets new branches, old leaves ( or random preexistent leaves) will yellow and fall.
Its the old thing about perpetual growth, plants in a pot cannot. It comes to a point some parts die while others grow.
I think it's the case with your privet, it's following nature.
It could be repotted to grow a step bigger-
If you like, we offer workshops on this and other topics
Best regards ''
