jonjonbear

Hello group..
I hope someone can help me. I have a Brazilian Rain Tree which I bought from a local Bonsai garden called "Jade Gardens" in Wimberly Texas. It was a beautiful tree and was doing great until recently. First, I did as they suggested and clipped the wierd new growth off. It seemed to love to shoot out long new branches with new leaves, sometimes over night. Then I noticed it had some white furry stuff on some of the branches. I got down really close and pulled one off and it was moving. It looked like some sort of bug, specially when I squashed it. It was slightly diamond shaped and maybe a 8th of an inch long and appeared to be covered in webbing. I was afraid I had some sort of pest so not knowing what to use, I tried some insecticidal soap spray on a small area. It seemed to kill the furry things and didn't bother the tree. I then sprayed the rest of the tree and seemed to kill off the rest of them. it seemed fine for about a week to ten days (still popping out new growth every now and then) Then when Rita was supposed to come out this way I took it inside, sat it on a table in front of a window and in two days it started turning brown and dropping it's leaves. It is now back outside, and still dropping a high percentage of it's entire leaf population every day. I do have some new growth still which I have stopped cutting off, but at the rate this is going I will have nothing in a weeks time...I keep it fairly moist just as they suggested..Do these trees go through spells of leaf loss? All the new growth seems to be on new branch starts..
It lives on my covered screen porch where it gets good sun in the morning but is shaded the rest of the day but it is bright outside there.
I am hoping for some wisdom from someone as I will be heart broken if this tree dies..Not to mention it was fairly expensive.
Thanks for your time and listening to my story...
John

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