Hello everyone,

I need urgent help as I don't know what to do.. my bonsai is an oriental tea tree (Carmona microphylla) which I have since September. It was fine until the winter when it started to look a bit tired but I thought it was just because of the cold and short days. Indeed at the beginning of spring it started producing new leaves (probably around end of April) and I thought it would be just fine, but in the recent weeks it's just been getting worse, with the leaves turning brown at the tip and drying out, and within a week or so it started loosing all its leaves. I believe I might have overwatered it at some point, but now I suspect there might also be some kind of fungal infection (there seems to be some tiny white spots on some of the leaves.

Please see pictures attached.

I just bought some bonsai soil mix to try and repot it after checking the roots, and hope for the best. Is that the right thing to do?

I sincerely hope it is still time to save it.. i checked the bark by making a tiny cut and it was still green inside.

Thank you all for your help,
Marie

This tree is gone. Do not worry about saving it; it is too late.

If this is where you kept it.. Read the forum and search for growing bonsai indoors.

What is wrong with where I kept it? Can you please explain? I have followed instructions on where to best position a bonsai..

MarieM wrote:

Can you please explain? .

read the forum especially threads on trees dying. They mostly have one thing in common. People seem to forget that plants need to be outside.

When I received mine it said it was an indoor bonsai, should they all be outside?

MarBear wrote:

When I received mine it said it was an indoor bonsai, should they all be outside?

There is NO INDOORS BONSAI.
It's a trick to sell young plants that will die.
Then you buy another, and another, and another...