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HI there,

I wonder if anyone can shed any light on my bonsai problem. We got the tree early last summer and it seemed happy in the bay window. It grew strong coverage of leaves. As the autumn approached, it lost most of them relatively quickly but then in the winter when we started using the central heating more leaves started growing again the lower branches. We read somewhere that these trees can have the odd sprout over the winter so we didn't think much of it.

But the leaves stayed all winter and now it's spring time and there are still no sign of life on the upper branches. A few days ago i noticed that all the thinner capillary branches were all dried to I clear them off, the remaining feel like they are still alive and are quite pliable to the touch.

Any ideas of what might be happening and how to solve it? I have attached some pictures.

Much appreciated

Some more photos

Most of the top of the tree is dead, probably even everything above that branch that still has leaves.

Cause: incorrect and changing climate.

Next time can you please put the photos on this forum? That site you're linking to isn't really working for me.

Sorry I tried but the pictures were too large to attach.

Is there anything that can be done to try and rescue it? The core of some of the branches on the top are still green. Is it likely that there's too much sun and heat on the bay window? The lady that sold it to us said to keep it wherever it gets the most sun which is why we put it there.

Is this a Chinese Elm and what would be the correct climate? It was doing well for a good few months

Thanks in advance

Filipe1987 wrote: Is there anything that can be done to try and rescue it?

Hard to tell from a photo. Seems the top is lost. The green you see doesn't mean much. It doesn't mean it's alive, just that it's not dead yet.
There where the branches are shriveled, the branch flow has stopped and these branches are dead - and that seems the whole top.

Let it grow (at least that what's still growing), give it proper care, be patient, see what happens.

Is this a Chinese Elm and what would be the correct climate?

Outside.

I keep mine outside. I find they do not take the inside climate well. So that would be my recommendation. Half shade, outside. Be carefull with watering, not soaking wet, but not completely dry eaither. Then wait.

I have a similar challenge. A friend passed me her bonsai (a ficus) because she wasn't interested in caring for it. Right now, one side of the tree is slowly leafing out but the other side appears to be lost. Some of the top appears to have been just chopped back, making it rather unsightly. I'm wondering about that dead part versus the live part. I'm working to keep the plant growing and hoping for the best, but there's a lot of unsightly dead stumps. Any suggestions for sculpting the dead parts to make them a little more aesthetically pleasing while the plant heals?

JESilverstein wrote: A friend passed me her bonsai (a ficus)
Some of the top appears to have been just chopped back, making it rather unsightly.
I'm wondering about that dead part versus the live part. I'm working to keep the plant growing and hoping for the best, but there's a lot of unsightly dead stumps. Any suggestions for sculpting the dead parts to make them a little more aesthetically pleasing while the plant heals?

Ficus Ginseng and aesthetically pleasing... that's an oxymoron.
Look around on the forum, use the search option. This type of houseplant is discussed very frequently.

BTW it's better to start your own thread.

I'm hardly expert but yes, I think you're lucky to have at least one branch showing life! But don't worry, plenty of videos online show growers just sticking with one branch, lopping off the top and going in a whole new direction... you could achieve a cool windblown look if you figure out how to lop the rest off, focus on that branch and get some vigor pumping through it over the next few years! I wonder if you might not need to repot it to allow that branch a greater share of the root system that might grow? I don't know what I'm talking about

>>Look around on the forum, use the search option. This type of houseplant is discussed very frequently.
I will, thank you.

>>BTW it's better to start your own thread.
Given that the problems were so similar, it didn't seem to me to make sense to do that, but thanks for the advice.