dayioglu

hello all

I have bought a Fukean Tea 6 months ago and until 2 months we were very happy together. Then I went to a vacation and asked my friend to take care of it and instead of the daily or once every two days watering it got, it was watered twice only in a week when it was very hot. When I came back it looked to be in a poor condition and I think I overwatered it to get it back to normal. then the poor thing has lost most of its leaves and looks comatose. I have noted a shriveling in the trunk of it where it used to look not so shriveled at all in the past. I checked the roots they do not seem to be burnt. It did have around 10 good looking leaves and 10-15 poor dried leaves ready to fall of the moment I touch them. I posted on bonsaiweb and I was advised to drop the dried foliage and switch to drinking water. Everything was fine for a while where I still had the old foliage drying up and falling off but I had new leaves coming out. We did the bark test as well and all the bark was fully green. one thing that worrried me was that the bark was shriveled. I kept the nurturing for about a month now but all leaves are gone and the tree is completely bald. I did the bark scratch again yesterday and all is still green. but I simply do not have any new leaf growth for over a month. I have not fertilized and I have brought down the water feed as with no leaves the tree does not need that much water anyhow. I do not know what to try next. Someone had suggested it might be a root problem but I do not know how to diagnose whether it is a root problem or not. Can someone help? I am pretty sure this is not a good time to repot but it could also be that the pot is a bit small for it as I have some root coming out of the drainage hole at the bottom of the pot. Can someone help please.

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