I am new to the bonsai world and last year (September) ordered a Dawn Redwood (5 tree grouping) to get my feet wet (1st picture). When ordered I lived in San Diego, and although it took until January for the leaves to fall, the trees seemed to do very well. I did my first pruning in February (once I saw the buds starting to break open) and the growth took off.
Last week I moved to Hailey Idaho and I have some concerns I am hoping someone can help with! The temperature here is just now starting to be above freezing at night (between 0-3 Celsius / 32 -38 Fahrenheit). The days have been warm at (13-19 Celsius / 55-65 Fahrenheit))Because of this, I left the bonsai in my garage for the first 3 days to help it acclimate to the new temperature while making sure it (and the new green shoots) were not exposed to sub-freezing temps. I moved it outside last week once the lows were above 3 Celsisu/38 Fahrenheit) and it seemed to be handling it pretty well. It has been getting ample water and southern exposure (roughly 8 hours of sun from 8:00am-4pm). Although the temperature is lower in Idaho than San Diego, the bonsai is probably getting double the amount of sun it was getting while in San Diego. It has been outside in Idaho now for 6 days/nights.
In the last 2 days, the leaves on the outside of the trees have begun to brown slightly. The browning is also occurring on the moss in the pot. Since there are so many new variables, I am not sure what is causing the effect and what steps I should take to make sure the grouping survives the move?
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