I’m resigned to lose this tree, but I’m not giving up just yet. I have unscientifically diagnosed ithwith Fusarium wilt, and have been treating it with MycoStop. The left trunk died last year, and the fungicide treatments seem to have only slowed down the advancement. The right side is now showing symptoms too; mostly on the lowest back branch.
But, some upper branches are showing the telltale signs of yellowing leaf veins:
So, another round of branch removal…
And it still looks nice from a distance. Maybe I’ll get another year or two to enjoy it:
I have been studying bonsai since 1994, in an ever-increasing obsessive fashion. In our last 5 years prior to moving from Iowa to Alabama pursuing a career in the foodservice industry, my bonsai collection was limited to a few varieties that could survive brutal winters outside, or winters under dim light in the dank basement of our humble duplex...my wife puts up with a lot. Including the trailer hitch I put on our brown 1983 Chrysler New Yorker to pull a U-Haul full of trees to Nashville for a 3-month stop along the career path that led us to Alabama. 12 years later, we no longer have the New Yorker; and not a single one of those trees remain on my bench, having given the last holdout to a new club member this summer. I prefer collecting native trees and buying the classical species used in Japan, feeding organic, and reading everything I can get my hands on.
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It’s so sad reading this post. It reminds me of how I lost mine – almost like a set of dominos that fall one after the other.
I am regrowing another but this time the makita & dremel are staying well clear of it. Cut putty mixed with a little tea tree oil is going on every chop and I’m growing the resistant Teton strains.
That bites, that was a pretty tree and still is, maybe it will pull through. I have had the worst time this year with fungus and what I think may be pseudomonas attacking things. I have lost three maples this year.
Nebari Bonsai 
It’s so sad reading this post. It reminds me of how I lost mine – almost like a set of dominos that fall one after the other.
I am regrowing another but this time the makita & dremel are staying well clear of it. Cut putty mixed with a little tea tree oil is going on every chop and I’m growing the resistant Teton strains.
That bites, that was a pretty tree and still is, maybe it will pull through. I have had the worst time this year with fungus and what I think may be pseudomonas attacking things. I have lost three maples this year.