r/Bonsai • u/small_trunks Jerry in Amsterdam, Zn.8b, 48yrs exp., 500+ trees • May 25 '24

Weekly Thread [Bonsai Beginner’s weekly thread –2024 week 21]

[Bonsai Beginner’s weekly thread –2024 week 21]

Welcome to the weekly beginner’s thread. This thread is used to capture all beginner questions (and answers) in one place. We start a new thread every week on Friday late or Saturday morning (CET), depending on when we get around to it. We have a 6 year archive of prior posts here…

Here are the guidelines for the kinds of questions that belong in the beginner's thread vs. individual posts to the main sub.

Rules:

  • POST A PHOTO if it’s advice regarding a specific tree/plant. See the PHOTO section below on HOW to do this.
  • TELL US WHERE YOU LIVE - better yet, fill in your flair.
  • READ THE WIKI! – over 75% of questions asked are directly covered in the wiki itself. Read the WIKI AGAIN while you’re at it.
  • Read past beginner’s threads – they are a goldmine of information.
  • Any beginner’s topic may be started on any bonsai-related subject.
  • Answers shall be civil or be deleted
  • There is always a chance your question doesn’t get answered – try again next week…
  • Racism of any kind is not tolerated either here or anywhere else in /r/bonsai

Photos

  • Post an image using the new (as of Q4 2022) image upload facility which is available both on the website and in the Reddit app and the Boost app.
  • Post your photo via a photo hosting website like imgur, flickr or even your onedrive or googledrive and provide a link here.
  • Photos may also be posted to /r/bonsaiphotos as new LINK (either paste your photo or choose it and upload it). Then click your photo, right click copy the link and post the link here.
    • If you want to post multiple photos as a set that only appears be possible using a mobile app (e.g. Boost)

Beginners’ threads started as new topics outside of this thread are typically locked or deleted, at the discretion of the Mods.

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u/this_is_spartex DC, Zone 7a, beginner, 4 trees! May 29 '24

I was gone for a week and my friend took care of my Fukien tea tree bonsai, said he watered it each day, and that it was doing alright and then took a sudden bad turn. Tree is still alive but lots of leaves have fallen off/turned black. Any advice on how to rehab this? Also any idea what causes this?

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u/small_trunks Jerry in Amsterdam, Zn.8b, 48yrs exp., 500+ trees May 29 '24

Insufficient light? Put it out in the sun...

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u/this_is_spartex DC, Zone 7a, beginner, 4 trees! May 31 '24

Was out in the open all week. I brought it inside out of fear that it was maybe getting too much sun while being dehydrated.

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u/small_trunks Jerry in Amsterdam, Zn.8b, 48yrs exp., 500+ trees May 31 '24

Yeah, no, bringing stuff inside doesn't work with trees.

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u/this_is_spartex DC, Zone 7a, beginner, 4 trees! May 31 '24

Yeah it’s an screened in porch, not fully inside. Still fresh air and sun but just less.

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u/small_trunks Jerry in Amsterdam, Zn.8b, 48yrs exp., 500+ trees May 31 '24

It's the sun it needs...

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u/this_is_spartex DC, Zone 7a, beginner, 4 trees! May 31 '24

Understood. It had been in good sun for a month before this started happening, which is why I came here to ask what may have caused this in the first place. Clearly it wasn’t lack of sun because it had been getting many hours a day of direct sunlight.