Need help ID'ing a problem on some of my bougies (looks like insect damage..)

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I answered all of this about three posts ago.

You have too many trees. You need to get back to the basics. Sop trying to be an expert out of the gate trying to tailor specialized approaches for all of these.

They are ALL in recovery now.

NONE are prepared to develop quickly and won't be for the foreseeable future.

Balanced fertilizer FOR ALL. Get them all up off the ground.

Stop procrastinating. and most of all Stop, stop, STOP futzing around with them every day.

LEAVE THEM ALONE. look up "benign neglect" and take the definition to heart.

I see he didn't take the "perception" message to heart either. I've been off this week so reading some of these more petty posts. You would do better by congratulating him on his purchases and telling him all his trees are magnificent and let the chips fall where they may. Thats when the real learning starts anyway.....about 73.865 percent of this forum just needs to just go outside and work their trees.

 

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I see he didn't take the "perception" message to heart either. I've been off this week so reading some of these more petty posts. You would do better by congratulating him on his purchases and telling him all his trees are magnificent and let the chips fall where they may. Thats when the real learning starts anyway.....about 73.865 percent of this forum just needs to just go outside and work their trees.

I mean, you say people need to go out more and mess with their trees while agreeing with him telling me to *stop* touching my trees! And I spend a lot of time out there, lately most of it has just been getting things better (re-boxing a plant, building a 10' table, removed overhead branches from the oak that's nearby)

I alter my approaches based on advice I'm given and do my best with it, and petty is relative I guess I mean my biggest 'thread of concern' right now is a great back&forth over collecting a mature ruby loropetalum in 2-step method, am discussing it with someone who's been doing it 10yrs and they advise 2-stepping it - which is going to get me "you're not listening" not matter what I do, as rock would say not to 2-step and the person in the other thread says it's required based on their 10yrs experience with the specie...

And I don't brag about purchases I've boughten two grinders I'm very frugal when it comes to bonsai, I also don't claim a single one of my trees to be great I acknowledge they're all pre-bonsai if even that.

I wouldn't waste my time asking questions if I wasn't interested in the answers, I do act on things rock tells me it's as simple as that.