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Hi everyone! We have a beautiful ficus bonsai that has been with us about 4/5 years now. We moved a few months ago. It was previously in a bay window and was perfectly fine. Since the move, we have placed it near the garden door as this is the spot with best light in the living room. After a few months in the new spot, it's starting to drop leaves. I must have over watered it a few weeks ago as I measured the soil moist and it was high. I worried about root rot so decided to not water it for about 2 weeks. Now back to slightly watering and leaves are turning yellow and probably 1/3 or 1/4 has dropped.. have I dried it out too much? Maybe it doesn't like the spot? Help please.. I gave it some ficus bonsai fertiliser this week in the hope of helping it. It is still showing new growth which makes me feel like there is hope. Also, I'm looking at re potting it as I feel like it needs more space now. Is it a good Time to do that now or should I wait for it to recover? Any advice would be much appreciated. P.s. photos attached

Hello!
If you have a garden, why it isn't on the other side of that window?
Seems like it's not getting enough light, leaves seems dark green, and the leaves yellowing seems to be the ones that are not getting sunlight at all, covered by other leaves...

You don't fertilize a tree like a countermeasure for it's bad state (yours doesn't seem to be that bad, but you don't).

If you're on northern hemisphere, the season would be ok for reppoting, and yes, seems like it has too many leaves for this pot size... However, for that, the ideal would be the plant being ok... How long since last repot?

Btw, what are your plans to that tree? Leave it as it is? Thicken the trunk even more?

Hello many thanks for your reply. We have always kept it indoors, winter has been quite cold and we get a lot of rain where i live. We have actually never re potted it so im guessing possibly before we bought it so around 4 years ago. No plans for the tree really, leave it as it is. I need to look into giving it a bit of shape, I was always reluctant to cut it to be honest.

Ok, congratulations on keeping it alive, but as you are soon entering into spring, I would consider put it outside if you can so it can thrive, if the temp. is acceptable, of course...

If you never repotted in all these years, that may be the problem, or at least one of them, alongside with changing stress and low light...
Ficuses has an really active root growth, so it should be reppoted every other year during spring... When you do some rootwork, is good to prune a bit, so it can renew on this growing season...

Remember that if you change position of the ficus it might need to adapt to the change of location. New house, other humidity levels then the old house. New light position. etc. That all can cause leaf drop. Especially in winter. Also watch out for cold drafts.
Did you firtilize it also last time with watering?
If it keeps losing it leaves in the comming weeks, then consider putting it outside for the summer months. So that the tree can recover, before it needs to get inside for the winter again.

Look at the first 3min of this video:

And this video abou what to except from 'indoor' bonsai:

Many thanks for sharing these videos, very informative i only fertilized once so far, two weeks ago now.