Why is my bonsai dying
How to save a dying ficus bonsai | The Bonsai Supply
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what's up guys jerome here from the
bonsai supply and today
we're going to talk about what to do if
this happens
all right so let me tell you what
happened to these two pre-bonsais
willow leaf ficus and the green mountain
ficus so maury and i
we went on a little trip and it was
really warm when we left at home
and it was also warm at the destination
place we never thought to think about
the temperatures back home
and what happened was that the
temperatures dropped below 40 degrees
fahrenheit for a couple of nights it
actually went all the way down to 32.
so when we came back we saw this site
one tree completely defoliated itself
and the other one is a little half half
it shed some leaves
but it also kept some leaves so now
let's see if we can salvage these two
trees by now it's important to know that
not all of the trees that have turned
brown can
be saved however these two trees are
ficuses and they're very strong
so i know that we have a really good
chance here now this tree over here that
has lost
almost all of its leaves we need to make
sure that it is salvageable and we can
do that by scratching the bark actually
so when we scratch the trunk here and
you see how they're still green
under the first layer of bark that means
that this tree has still a really good
chance of being safe
also when i touch these new leaves here
and new leaves the old leaves that were
damaged
they fall right off so that tells me
that i have a really good chance to go
ahead and save these two trees
now what i have to do first is i have to
remove all of the leaves on both of
these trees to a complete defoliation
because these damaged leaves actually
hold the tree back
because the tree is still trying to save
these leaves
so we're going to go ahead and defoliate
it and help the tree alone
all right so once you finish the
foliating uh you want to make sure that
you remove
all of the red leaves take them all away
from the tree even from
inside the soil here around the base
remove all of that leaves because they
actually attract
insects and we don't want that and so
after removing
all of the leaves what we want to do is
as you can see on this first tree
we have a lot of black branches up here
the tips
have turned completely black right and
that's probably because there was water
inside here the tree was actively
growing
the cold came and in here with the cold
snap
this started to die back and underneath
here is actually going to be black
and what we want to do is we want to
chase this back this brown stuff here
and go all the way back to hardwood and
weights as well green
so let's start out with this branch
right here
so chase it back
so now as you can see this difference
the wood there's a nice difference from
wood
from here to this one here you see where
this one is brown
all the way down to about here and
that's where you want to chase these
branches back to
if you don't cut off these branches here
that are brown
what happens is they continue to slowly
die back
all the way and most likely take the
entire tree with it
so that's why we want to go ahead and
cut all of these tips off throughout the
tree
now you also see here we have some
branches that are starting to turn brown
but they still have a green tip also
remove those as well
that's very important
all right so now on this tree we need to
do the exact same thing we need to go
ahead and remove all of these brown
branches here
that have died back and as you can see
they fall right off
and this process really helps to reset
the tree
and now hopefully within just a couple
of weeks both of these trees will be
leafed out again
and be healthy and happy
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all right so i moved the trees out into
full sun and i'm going to keep an eye on
the watering now make sure not to over
water them until they come back
i'm also not going to fertilize them and
i'm also not going to repot them
they have been shocked enough and i
don't want to go ahead and shock them
some more
by repotting them so now i'm going to go
ahead and clean up this mess before i
get yelled at by mari and i'm going to
show you an
update on those two trees very soon all
right so as you can see
both of these trees are on the road of
recovery
um so the next step now would be to go
ahead and remove all of the dead
branches and limbs and just clean the
trees up a little bit
so i hope that you guys enjoyed today's
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guys next time
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