KoyoteGnomely
Seed
So back in August I got my first bonsai, the Fukein tea tree (ehretia mircophylla).Anyhow after reading hours of content and watching 3 start up videos in a row, I was ready for the transplant. My pot has to weep holes in the bottom about the size of a nickel, so I covered them with plastic mesh. Next I ran copper wire, 3 strands through the holes and mesh to secure the roots once it was placed. I then focused on the tree, I named him Boris so if I mention that name think of the Fukein Tea tree, I knocked off all of the soil in the original pot until I could see all the roots. Indiscriminately I trimmed back all the roots, and then moved it to my new pot. I used tinyroots premium bonsai soil blend to cover the roots, and wrapped the copper around the root masses as this was being done. After my primary pack down of the soil, I ensured the tree would not fall and so on. I did a final pack down of the soil using the end of a pencil at first then moved to thumbs and palms to be certain no air was trapped between that rock type soil. After that I did a watering. My typical water is every few days, as I notice it getting dry, and the way I water is briefly running the pot and tree under the shower setting of the kitchen faucet. As of the past few months this is all I have done and he was growing new branches and leaves. At the start of this week some of his leaves would get hard, a few with brown spots but not all of them. I then did an extra watering because I know the temp change here lowered the relative humidity to 30 percent. But this only made my stress go up as now leaves wilted and hardened..... now boris as no leaves at the end of the week. I really dont want to lose this plant. I was even saving up for some nice tools, not that matters to what I need. So as a complete beginner, throw me some possibilities of saving Boris, the tea tree. Note some of the branches ate stiff but not brittle. Some are twig like and springy. I'm not sure where I went wrong but I think he can come out of it. Nonetheless thank you everyone for any advice, I will be surely checking this all weekend as I think about repotting again. Have a wonderful day!
I also just added the little pool of water today, to help raise humidity by him. Hydrometer says its 38 rH. I was packed to soil a little bit.
I also just added the little pool of water today, to help raise humidity by him. Hydrometer says its 38 rH. I was packed to soil a little bit.
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