Over watered, under watered or over fed?
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Morning Folks I am new to the community and I have recently started on my bonsai journey. I am currently growing albizia julibrissin, picea abies and cercis siliquastrum. I am having some issues with my albizia as pictured. The leaves on one, in particular, started to fad to yellow then became crispy and fall off. I am watering every other day when the soil becomes nearly dry, and I was feeding a weak feed once a week. Does anyone have any ideas if this is nutrient burn, over or under watered? The strange thing is I have two seedlings in one pot, one looks healthy and the other is looking miserable. Thank you in advance for any help
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Posted 3 years 6 months ago #69884
Well, the answer is simple: it needs to be outside where it belongs.
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Posted 3 years 6 months ago #69932
Erm ok thank you for that informative and friendly answer. Telling me it needs to be outside where it belongs without any knowledge of my local temperature or situation is really quite unhelpful, but thanks for the response regardless. If anyone else a more helpful insight or information would be really appreciated.
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Posted 3 years 6 months ago #69942
Please give information about your location and climate.
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Posted 3 years 6 months ago #69944
Ahh, Cumbernauld. Usda zone 8 I think.
Picea Abies is hardy in zone 3 to 8. That means you have the perfect climate to keep it outside all year long.
Indoor conditions is similat to zone 13 or even worse due to low humidity.
I dont know the other species, but google species name plus usda zone. If any of them is 13 there are a slight chanse of survival indoors.
Survival is not enough to make a bonsai tree. You need it to thrive for several years. That disqvalifies most trees for indoor growing except crassula and portulacaria.
Picea Abies is hardy in zone 3 to 8. That means you have the perfect climate to keep it outside all year long.
Indoor conditions is similat to zone 13 or even worse due to low humidity.
I dont know the other species, but google species name plus usda zone. If any of them is 13 there are a slight chanse of survival indoors.
Survival is not enough to make a bonsai tree. You need it to thrive for several years. That disqvalifies most trees for indoor growing except crassula and portulacaria.
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Posted 3 years 6 months ago #69948
Does not matter, unless you are in the Artic, Picea are hardy. You will not keep it alive indoors.
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Posted 3 years 6 months ago #70010
Wow ok thank you for the response. I didn't know they needed to be kept outside to establish. After they have established can I then bring them inside? The whole idea was to have some nice little tree around the house.
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Posted 3 years 6 months ago #70013
We normally take our trees in for display two or three days and then back out. Beeing inside is bad for almost every tree. 名媛直播 is primary an outdoor hobby.
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Posted 3 years 6 months ago #70018
..as i said in my answer... outside where it belongs
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Posted 3 years 6 months ago #70019
Thank you I really appreciate you sharing that with me. I am quite surprised to be honest, I will move them outside and see how they go. Should I except some shock if they have acclimatised to indoors so far? Might need to research some more in door species
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