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Today are back of my Dolomax Ruggia
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This is about two weeks after it arrived. As you can see it's alive, there is a little bud sprouting
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This tree was sent to me by Gerard over at Jarhead Bonsai. Got stuck in the postal system for nearly two weeks from America
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so it nearly didn't make it here. But luckily it's still alive
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You should go and check out his house. You should go and check out his channel by the way. I'll put a link below
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Here it is a few days later. It's definitely bouncing back now. It's under the grow light
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It's so tiny but I love it though. It's definitely going to be okay
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Here in October, it's looking all right
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I wanted to leave it to spring to repot it but my mind wasn working too well at this time I couldn quite work out if the soil was wet or not The soil is pretty good it just a little more composty than what I used to
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I just couldn't think straight enough to even deal of it. So I decided to risk it and I repotted it
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It's more of a soil swap than a repot. Having the grow light means I can get away of this at this time of year
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This is a tropical tree so it will be getting light all year round. I don't think it's been this pod very long but roots are looking fine
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I didn't want to mess them up so there's no pruning at all here. I was also able to give it a slightly larger pot as well
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so I'm sure that will help it out. I just untangled the roots and spread them out the best I could
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and then I just fill it up with my usual mix. Now I don't need to worry about watering it
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I'm really used to this soil and I can tell straight away when it's ready for more water
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Hopefully it enjoy this mix along with my grow light In November it looks happy enough Still got new buds forming so I think it isn going to be too bothered about the soil change
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By December it's definitely growing pretty fast. Well this was short-lived, the leaves are going a bit weird, so I cut them off
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Which is why in January it's looking. January it's looking slightly less full. The leaf of left was looking fine so I just let it stay
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I honestly didn't know if it was an insect problem or if it had some kind of disease but the leaves all turned like a yellow colour and then it's dropped off
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But anyway I kept growing strongly and also some moss appeared. I didn't put that there so it took hold pretty fast
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I am now pretty certain it was not an insect problem as I couldn't see any
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and I used pesticides a few times. Also, none of my other trees were affected
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and they were all pretty much touching. So they definitely all would have been affected
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Anyway, you can see here in April, one of the leaves is going weird again. Turning yellow and starting to drop off
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I don't know if it's a water issue, but it shouldn't be, as this soil is well draining
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and it never fully sat in water for long Here a close You can see they are starting to go yellow Then some go more brown and then they kind of drop off I just can work it out But it still
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happening now. I was kind of hoping the tree would just grow out of it, but it seems to be an ongoing
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issue. In May you can see it's put on a lot of growth so it's still healthy while also being unhealthy. I don't know
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but it's weird. Here it is in June, still healthy, still dropping leaves
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And the same for July. Although it's looking like it has put on some serious good growth
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I just wish it would stop dropping leaves as well. And here it is now, still doing okay, but still dropping leaves
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If you know why it's doing this, let me know is I just, I literally can't work it out
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Thanks for watching, see you next time
