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Hello!

I?ve got a Carmona Macrophyla as a present on Christmas. I?ve had it for almost 3month now but i?ve been having a lot of troubles in the past weeks with it and im a bit lost on what i should do at the moment to invert the situation.

At the start its was looking great but i?ve made some big mistakes. The flowering buds turned brown, then the strong green look fadded away, leaves started to became greyish and turned hard and crispy, then a lot of leaves dropped and its has been like that ever since.

I think my problems were, 1st i over watered it ( i had been watering aprox. 1 time per week but put a lot of water each time but i would let it dry out outside, but not in the direct sun) when the green look started to fade away i knew something was wrong, and since i thought it was over water i started to put less and that was my 2nd big mistake.. after that it started to lose a lot of leaves so i think i under watered it badly.

After the leave crisis i started to water it one time per day ( when the top is humid i dont) i spray like 30times the top of the base but when i put my finger in the hole in the vase i think its still dry sometimes but not always. Now i?ve got a small Mealy bugs infestation, i?ve been picked then and it has not spreaded, doesn't have a lot of it.

So i dont know what i should now, i think i might have a fungus on top of the watering problems and i think i might be missing fertilizer also.
can someone help me pls? sorry for my major doubts but the more i read the more im not sure of whats the real problem is or how to address it properly, if it is still lack of water or something more.

i think i should use a fungicide for like a week or two, then re pot with new soil and then fertilize?

Sorry for my long post, itsmy 1st time here ^^

Thank you in advance!

There are hundreds of similar topics here at BE, but no one have an answer and nobody came back with a success story.

Carmonas as christmas presents is like tullips in spring. Sold by million every year and they die within a few weeks.

If you are serious about growing and developing bonsai, just look for other species. If not, just buy another one next winter and enjoy it as long as it last. And by that time replace it with tulips.

If you really want to try to save it anyway, my best guess right now is high humidity and high light terrarium. That would be closest to their natural environment.

Hello
Thank you for reply

yeah i?ve read a lot of similar trends about it and its complicated to say the least..

i decided to ask for help because i hoped there would still be a possibility to restore it since it still had a fair amount of leaves, that it wasnt irreversible just a watering or lack of nutrient problem

so ill try that ill give it more water each time making sure humidity is high and try to put it with more luminosity or get a light. Spraying plant with water not good idea right?

and in this case, no nutrients or new soil or anything would make a change, fertilizing when the plant is not in good health if its not provocated by nutrient deficit is also not a good idea?
sorry for probably repeating same questions that are probably answered elsewhere, i will look it up ^^
thanks again

Basic rules that apply to all trees:

Never fertilize an unhealthy tree. Nutrient uptake is very low and you risk salt buildup in the soil.

Never repot an unhealthy tree. The stress off repotting can be the thing that puts it over the edge.

Trees are adapted to the environment in which they are evolved in. There are not one environment in the world with the constant 18-22 c and 20-40 humidity we call living room conditions.