hi...

First off don't take it personally. I'm no expert but I've been doing
this a few years and I've had a little Serissa experience. I've heard
everything from they're easy to they're impossible. Personally I've had
three with two still being alive. The third was the nicest (of course)
and one day out of nowhere sections of the tree dried up and died until
it was all gone. From my standpoint if you look at them wrong they die.
Seriously if you are not overwatering it should be ok. The two I still
have sometimes will drop a third of their leaves for no apparent reason.
There may be better advice out here but I would not do anything radical
until you see what happens next. I would not spray it again until it
stabilizes or has an insect problem. What exactly was the "dishwasher
solution"? If was just dish soap and water it should be no problem.
Serissa seem to not like change so I tend not to move them very much .
I use natural light so I can't help much with the lighting portions. In
my experience it will either fix itself or die outright no matter what
you do. Hang in there and do not do anything radical. It would help
here to know what part of the country you are from.

Hope this helps a little.

wmcorcor

== -----Original Message-----
== From: Internet Bonsai Club
== ] On Behalf Of Jim
== Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 8:09 PM
== To:
== Subject: [IBC] Serissa dying - help!
==
== I bought a serissa a few months ago. We were told to spray
== it with dishwasher solution to kill any potential bugs. We
== did that few months ago and about 1/3 of the leaves died.
== After that we put it under a full-spectrum incadescent
== light bulb. Leaves continue to fall and some of the leaves
== turn brown, as if they are burning, and some even turn
== darker shade of brown, almost black. We only water it when
== the soil is dry, every 3-4 days. We give it grow light for
== about 14 hours from a distance of 16-24" and spray it once a day.
==
== What is causing the leaves to go burn and go brown? Why
== are so many leaves dropping? Some branches have no leaves
== at all now.
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