TBlake84

I picked up a young willow leaf ficus "mall-sai" from a home improvement center this past summer and have been growing it under grow lights in my dormitory at school. About a month ago, it dropped all its leaves in a three or four day period even thought I hadn't changed anything. I was worried it was dying for some random reason. Even though it had been four weeks, I stuck with it after I took a small branch and it still oozed latex and it is finally pushing out some new leaves (four weeks later). Is this something that these trees normall do? I had replanted it back in August, did that have something to do with it?

Finally, there seems to be these tiny white furry bugs (think pin-head size) on it that don't seem to really affect the tree but they do seem to leave behind these hair like secretions... what are these and should I worry about getting rid of them? Thanks.

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Cycas revoluta
Acer buerguerianum
Acer saccharum
Acer palmatum atropurpureum
Ficus neriifolia
Eugenia myrtifolia

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