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29-May-2005
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bonsaiTALK Neophyte
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Can anyone help save my elm
I was given a bonsai tree (chinese elm) for christmas and the soil was left to dry out recently, there are only a few shoots left and the leaves are almost dead.Can anyone tell me how and if I can save it?
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Keep watering it and hope for the best. Scratch the bark - if it's not green, it's too late.
Jerry
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Where are you located, and is the tree inside or outside?
Scratching the bark lightly to see if it is green is a very good way of knowing whether the elm is still alive. If it is, don't overwater. Just keep the soil lightly moist. The tree can drown at this point, too. Joanie |
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29-May-2005
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bonsaiTALK Master Craftsman
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Also make sure its not one of those bonsai from the mall that has the glued pepples on it. If so? take them off. When I first got into bonsai i had a hard time keeping my elms alive. Good luck with it.
Peace Bob
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bonsaiTALK Master Chief
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Oh, and if all the leaves fall off, it's STILL NOT NECESSARILY DEAD. This happened to me recently:
http://forum.bonsaitalk.com/showthread.php?t=12052 I have four Chinese Elms which have still not produced leaves THIS YEAR - but are nice and green under the bark. Jerry
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Thank you Jerry for saying that, my large chinese elm hasn't put out any leaves and although it is green underneeth I was starting to get very worried. Please to hear others have elms without leaf and are stilll OK  |
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Damn - I thought mine were OK because yours wasn't dead yet! Anyway, given that my plum finally "woke-up" 3 months later than it usually does, I'm hoping for some action still with the Elms. I suspect root damage is the cause, rather than branch damage - since even smaller elms I had in the ground were unaffected. Jerry
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