My bonsai is dying, and i do not know what it is
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Posted 8 years 1 month ago #27953
Hi. I got this tree 2 months ago. I know that it needs to be watered when the top layer of soil gets dry. There were some flying small insets around it, i sprayed wit that spray twice, they were gone, there was once white moldish thing on the soil. The original soil looked like it never wnats to get dry even though i did not water for more than a week sometimes. It started dying, a branch gone black, more and more leaves turning crispy and the tip of the leaves go dark... i gave it food once in 2 month. I thought its root rot so i checked how to repot, and did it but the roots did not look bad at all. It was 2 meters from the window now its in the kitchen next to the window.. maybe the sunlight.... i had another one a podocarpus in the same room, its fine and happy... even though when it arrived from the shop i had to kill caterpillars on it..... still that one is frowing like a hero. I also spray them once a day with water cause the room is a bit dry i mean the humidity... I hope the photos are good enough for someone to tell me what is going on. thx.
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Posted 8 years 1 month ago #27977
It needs to be outside.
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Posted 8 years 1 month ago #27978
Outside? Im in London uk and its december.... also it was bought in homebase as indoors plant. Why does it need to be outside?
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Posted 8 years 1 month ago #27979
I am not sure what species you have but just bcause it is December does not mean that plants need to be inside. This is not bonsai but some sort of plant that is sold as bonsai. It may be that it is not hardy and needs protection, that means frost free therefore you need a greenhouse. There is no such thing as an indoor bonsai or any other plant for that matter, there are plants that are so tough they will survive in the kind of environment that a house has. That does not mean the conditions are ideal or even good for the plant just that it does not die.
It will need a lot of light so in a south facing window not 2 metres from it, and humidity also. It looks to me like a tropical or sub tropical species but what I don't know. I don't think though that it will survive frost so the only option will be to keep it inside in a window and hope it survives through until the spring.
It will need a lot of light so in a south facing window not 2 metres from it, and humidity also. It looks to me like a tropical or sub tropical species but what I don't know. I don't think though that it will survive frost so the only option will be to keep it inside in a window and hope it survives through until the spring.
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Posted 8 years 1 month ago #27980
Ok, but what am i doing wrong, what sould i change? I watered it 5 days ago, the soil is still dump. its like the roots do not use the water at all.... it would explain why it is dying back too... but as i said the roots did not look like they are in "trouble". I just sprayit and put it in the window so that it gets as much sunlight as it can.
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Posted 8 years 1 month ago #27983
The plant looks as if the roots are rotting, which typically gives you the black top stems. Hardly ever do plants come back from that, unless you really know what you are doing, and can respond intuitively. I do not have plants like the one you are showing. So I cannot recommend treatment.
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Posted 8 years 1 month ago #27984
i watered it around once a week... how can the roots rot in 2 month with that amount of watering?
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Posted 8 years 1 month ago #27986
Don't know, don't care. It is what it looks like.
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