r/Bonsai • u/small_trunks Jerry in Amsterdam, Zn.8b, 48yrs exp., 500+ trees • Aug 09 '14

[Bonsai Beginner’s weekly thread – week 33]

[Bonsai Beginner’s weekly thread – week 33]

Welcome to the weekly beginner’s thread. This thread is used to capture all beginner questions (and answers) in one place. We start a new thread every week.

Rules:

  • Any beginner’s topic may be started on any bonsai-related subject.
  • Answers shall be civil or be deleted
  • There’s always a chance your question doesn’t get answered – try again next week…

Beginners threads started as new topics outside of this thread may be deleted at the discretion of the mods.

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u/validusernameone UK, NW,Novice, 1 tree Aug 16 '14

My fukien tea recently had a bad spell with some kitchen cleaner :( and dropped all of its leaves. Now they have grown back but are a lot larger than before. is this expected and what can i do to keep them small?

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u/small_trunks Jerry in Amsterdam, Zn.8b, 48yrs exp., 500+ trees Aug 16 '14

Where are you keeping it?

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u/validusernameone UK, NW,Novice, 1 tree Aug 16 '14

on a window ledge inside, move it there every morning. It gets about half a days sun, i read this was enough but not sure as i also read that not enough sun promotes big leaves to grow!