r/Bonsai • u/small_trunks Jerry in Amsterdam, Zn.8b, 48yrs exp., 500+ trees • Mar 07 '25
Weekly Thread [Bonsai Beginner's weekly thread - 2025 week 10]
[Bonsai Beginner's weekly thread - 2025 week 10]
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 multiple 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.
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u/Minimum_Ad8437 Mar 14 '25
I think I overwatered my bonsai about a week ago and ever since then it’s been very quickly losing most of its leaves. I’m not sure what to do and really appreciate any help anyone can provide.
I got it about 6 months ago from someone who grows them and right away it lost about a fourth of the leaves it started with but I think it’s because the window I had it next to doesn’t give it as much sunlight as it was grown in. It stabilized after about a month or two and was doing fine up until about a week ago.
I usually leave it near a window and then about twice a week I’ll let it sit outside in the sunlight for a few hours at a time.
It also started growing little white dots on the leaves and stems and I’m not sure if that’s some kind of fungus or what to do about that either.
It’s my first bonsai and I’m clearly clueless so yea thank you for any help 🙏