Disease ficus bonsai

[Bruno]

Hello fellow gardeners,

My ficus bonsai is suffering a bit. It looks like a disease of some sort. It lost quite some leaves. Do you have any idea what this could be? Thank you very much!

 

[Chuck]

It appears to me that some of the leaves are starting to turn a purplish color and losing their green color and turning yellow. This is a sign of nutritional deficiencies namely iron, phosphorus and nitrogen. I would fertilize it with a good organic balanced fertilizer and I would also supplement this fertilizer with micro-nutrients such as Fertiloam Chelated Liquid Iron.

 

[cpp gardener]

I would move it closer to a light source and make sure it doesn’t get too cold.

 

[DirtMechanic]

I would move it closer to a light source and make sure it doesn’t get too cold.

Yeah, poor thing is stretching to the light source. You can feed it but without solar energy it cannot eat or breathe much.

 

[Bruno]

Thank you all of you.

I tried adding some nutrients. Let's see if it works.

 

[cpp gardener]

Have you given it more light? Without more light the fertilizer won’t help.

 

[Bruno]

Yes thanks, I had to use an artificial one as where I live we don't have much light at the moment