Ceeshells wrote:

.... I guess I messed this up. I’m still a beginner with bonsai trees. Hopefully I can do better by my azalea. Thank you LucR and Tropfrog

Do not worry about it. Everyone has to learn. And we all do things than looking back, were not great. Yet, if you had known it was not a great idea. So you now have learned something, and next time you will do things differently.