Hello, I recently bought a ficus retusa bonsai tree and every morning I mist it when I wake up ( its quite relaxing) but anyways I have been noticing little brown scars on a couple of leafs and I have been getting worried about it due to the fact that I only have had it for 2 weeks. Anyways I have a book about bonsai trees and it barely covers a section about insecticides. I will upload some pictures on the bottom of this article.
Second question is if it is the leaf miner leaf damage. What insecticide do I use? Thanks
Splooch.
It needs a re-pot its starving.splooch wrote:Hello, I recently bought a ficus retusa bonsai tree and every morning I mist it when I wake up ( its quite relaxing) but anyways I have been noticing little brown scars on a couple of leafs and I have been getting worried about it due to the fact that I only have had it for 2 weeks. Anyways I have a book about bonsai trees and it barely covers a section about insecticides. I will upload some pictures on the bottom of this article.
Second question is if it is the leaf miner leaf damage. What insecticide do I use? Thanks
Splooch.
Move to a 15 litre pot.
I have stem borer in my 15 year old ficus, I'm thinking ill have to cut it in my case.
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Just in case it IS leafminers, I would clip off the presumably tunneled leaves. Leaf miners are hidden and protected between the top and bottom leaf layers and most insecticides won't help unless you want to use a systemic, but light infestation is easy to manage just by destroying the leaves with larvae inside before they can mature into egg laying adults.
Removing the affected leaves also makes it to spot newly damaged leaves.
Removing the affected leaves also makes it to spot newly damaged leaves.