Is My Tree Dead?
- Azarath
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alainleon1983 wrote:
Yes, they are hard to kill, but your tree endured just too much in too little time. And no, you don?t have to be afraid of buying new plants, you just need to learn more and inform yourself before doing it... And eventually, even before you fully realize, your trees will begin to thrive... Just don?t quit because you?ve done something awfully bad. You?ll see... sometimes learning is an iterative and painful process, but at the end, with bonsais, it will be a rewarding one.
I actually still have a full spectrum grow lamp coming in the mail (meant to try and help revive my tree) so the sunlight thing never happens again. I live in Washington State, so the sun we have is very little. And I can't leave it outside overnight, because we have serious problems with stray cats and raccoons. I would fear for the tree's safety. Unless I have nothing to worry about and none of them will touch it, then I'll gladly leave it outside. But I don't know if critters will leave it alone for sure, so I didn't want to take the chance. Funny enough, what drove me to want a bonsai tree to begin with was watching the old school Karate Kid.
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Washington state is as far south as Spain. I would say you have no lack of sunlight (This from someone who is about 1500km, or 1000 miles north of you in the Netherlands/Germany)
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i do not even know if there is racoon repelant but anyway, your infestation will pass over in a year or over winter possibly.sorry if i accidently trolled you it is just i have only experienced someone jacking my potato plant i have not experienced loosing a tree.
good luck!
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bob wrote: you could get an outdoor tree and put it on a stand and put a cirlce of cat repelant and racoon repelant or something around the stand, could work.
I'd go to a zoo and ask if I can get some Lion droppings, and place that in a circle around the tree. Or use salt.
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leatherback wrote: Would salt work though? Have you seen it used?
Not really. My Shishi-Odoshi keeps them away. Seems to work great, I've never seen a raccoon near my trees.
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leatherback wrote: The family of figs are quite poisonous. So even if the raccoons would go after them.. I think you might be doing your neighbours a favour
Washington state is as far south as Spain. I would say you have no lack of sunlight (This from someone who is about 1500km, or 1000 miles north of you in the Netherlands/Germany)
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You'd be surprised actually. Our state is known massively for its rain and it's almost always cloudy. I did try to get it outside as much as I could on the sunny days, though. Too bad I don't live on the other side of the mountains where it's like a desert. Our state has a rain forest and a desert all wrapped up in one state. Pretty neat. Would it be acceptable to just put it in bright shade? I'm only asking for future trees. It's hard to get direct sunlight around my house because of all the trees and buildings, but we do have some nice bright shady spots.
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bob wrote: it likes shade
"It does best in bright, sunny conditions but will also tolerate considerable shade"
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Azarath wrote: You'd be surprised actually. Our state is known massively for its rain and it's almost always cloudy.
I won't. I did research before posting.
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Washington state: 2170 hours of sunlight annually on average, which is 47% of the time
Enschede (Town close to me: 1547 hours of sunlight annually on average, which is 35% of the time
So we get on average almost a quarter less hours of sunlight here (Not to mention the incident being much lower thus less intense). As said, you are roughly the same latitude as Spain. There is lots of light.
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