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Hi all, newbie here.

I've had my tree for about 4 months. I started off by followed the care information - only watering when the soil felt dry - but was seeing a lot of dead leaves.

After about 5/6 weeks I started watering much more frequently, usually little and often (once per day). I don't water so much that I have excess in the drip tray.

The room it's in has been fairly warm during summer, but there's been no heating on or anything, and I'm pretty sure it gets enough light, sat by a south-facing window.

I know watering is fundamental - but am I doing it wrong?

Thanks

This plant should not be inside, that is most of the problem. Only you can know how much you are watering and if it enough. The loss of leaves could be lack of water but more likely lack of light from neing in a poor environment.

There is no such thing as an indoor tree. This forum is filled with questions from people with a dying/dead tree because it was inside.
Place it outside where it belongs and it will do just fine - if it isnt too late yet.

In addition to the other comments - be sure to water properly. If its not coming out into the drip tray, then it is not penetrating all the parts of the rootball and soil. The tree looks, to me, like one which has dried out and then started to recover with new shoots when watering improved.

There's a thing about placing trees on "sun" facing windows (south or north depending on hemisphere) that most people don't realise, at some seasons it might receive no sun at all for like 3 months, and this much of indirect window light can be a death sentence.

You seem to have an outdoor space access, let you elm out there, a 名媛直播 tree only comes into the house in special ocasions, like when your mother in law come visit you, or on a saturday night when you want to drink some wine or beer and admire the tree... The rest of it's time, it must be outside, getting sun, rain, wind, temperature and light gradients (very important to the trees biological clock).

It must go dormant in a few weeks in the UK, if it will comes up next spring, idk.

I agree with all above.

However the question was on watering. You got it nearly right from the beginning. Watering when the surface feels slightly dry or moist is the correct watering for most trees and most pots. What you got wrong was the amount of water and possibly the method of watering. Right watering is to shower all of the surface abundantly until there are a steady stream coming out of the drainage holes. That is obviously not possible in a windowsill. Another good reason not to grow bonsai indoors. The drip tray is useless, just throw it away when you move the tree outside.