Sorry i did not get your name on the site sure is here somewhere.

Anyway a college of mine heard that i grow bonsai and asked me to have a look at his ficus. He brought the tree to work and when i saw it i knew it had died but was not sure of what.
As you mentioned in the artical above i started knocking out the reasons by asking him a few questions.
I found that he had the tree for 11 years and it has never been repoted!!!!!!!
He did feed the tree though i think that is what kept it going.
The roots was so rotted that the bark around them just peeled off.
Its kind of sad if the salesman just told him how to look after it it would still be alive.
My point is that sometimes the trees are just sold for the sake of selling them.

Your site is cool and i will keep on checking it.

One question where are you from?

Kind Regards
Retief Jansen