Bonsai Tree Tips Turning Brown

However inadequate water is also often the cause of a browning of your tree.

Bonsai tree tips turning brown. The specter of disease and infestation by pests is constant even with bonsai. Three reasons your japanese maple has brown or crispy leaves. A typical bonsai soil is a mostly inorganic mixture of lava rock pumice fine gravel organic potting compost and a clay like soil called akadama. Junipers don t need water every day.

Traditionally bonsai trees are planted in a shallow dish and need a soil that drains well. There are bonsai species like juniper bonsai trees that are not fans of knives and but they require pruning consistently during the warm bonsai growing season. To answer our reader s question and hopefully yours too let s look at a few ways you can revive a struggling japanese maple tree. Regular potting mix is too dense and becomes compacted eventually suffocating the tree s roots.

When one of our readers saw her japanese maple s leaves rapidly turning brown she reached out for advice asking if fertilizer or water could help. Needles turning brown can be an indicator of improper watering. In some cases overwatering can cause needles to turn brown. Especially vulnerable when kept outside bonsai can develop infections such as root rot and brown leaf spot which can.

The serissa s leaves are slowly 5 6 leaves day turning brown at the tips and falling off. The ficus s leaves are turning just slightly yellow and falling off 3 5 leaves day there is still new growth so they are not leaf less but they re getting pretty thinned out. Cutting new shoots often causes the surrounding foliage to turn brown at.