Hello,
I am absolutely knew to all of this, I've been doing a lot of reading, and as it turns out I shouldn't have got my tree at WalMart haha It had the glued rocks on top. Before I repotted, I did notice one of the leaves looked like a caterpillar had been on it. Oh! It looks like someone sat there with a magnifying glass and burnt lil spots/holes into the leaf. That's the best I can explain it, but it was only one leaf and the rest looked healthy. So....after doing a lot of reading, I took the glued rocks off, and got as much of the old soil off as I could, then repotted in 100% sphagnum moss because A) I live in a mall town and my hardware store actually had it, and B) They don't have much of anything else, no orchid mix. In fact....other than sphagnum moss, they only have Cactus mix, Miracle Grow soil, and Shultz Potting Soil. They have lava rock, but it's in bigger chunks, though if ya'll think I should add it, my boyfriend said he would crush some up for me. Anyway...I wore gloves when I repotted and made sure the sphagnum was wet for 10 minutes before I bothered with it. I read about the guy who died from something caused by it
Anyway, since I've repotted, I've noticed a few things:
1) About 4 more leaves have the magnifying glass thing going on, some with holes, other just with black spots. Also, leaves on the ends of most of the branches have started to kinda shrivle at the edges. anddd, a couple of the smaller baby leaves are starting to look yellow
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2) I repotted 2 nights ago, and the sphagnum is STILL pretty wet. There are plenty of holes at the bottom of my pot, in fact when I repotted, I thought I had good drainage cuz water immidiately started coming out of the bottom when I first watered it. The top almost felt like it was soaking. So since I know it's bad to overwater, I took it out of the pot and took parts of the sphagnum off and squezed as much water out as I could, being careful not to harm the roots. (I wore gloves btw)
So....are my leaves having problems BECAUSE the soil is too wet? And why is my soil staying so wet, when I read so many people using sphagnum moss, and they were fine? And in most cases they said they had to water once a day? Its been sunny here the last two days, it hasn't been very warm though (like 50 degrees) and I've been setting my tree on a window sil facing south.
Please help me cuz I am so determined to save this plant!
I will take pictures right now and post them as a reply (though I snipped off most of the problem leaves)