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I'm a beginner to bonsai and bought a fukien tea three months ago. It seemed very healthy in the beginning. Now it is dropping lots of leaves and looking very bare. Since I bought it I have had it under two flourescent lights (15 hours a day) and on a humidity tray. It is in a light brown pebbly growing medium that gets darker when wet. Some other plants had a few aphids and scale, so I figured that might be this tree's problem too. So I dosed all the plants with insecticidal soap two times over two weeks. The last treatment was last week. It has dropped a few more leaves since then.

I had read Fukien teas don't like it dry so I've been watering as soon as the top of the growing medium dries out. Most of the leaves just turn dark brown, but some get yellow and brown spots.

I've read the other posts about fukien tea problems but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong and what steps I should take to help this tree recover.

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