Hi!

Name is Kai and this is my first post. I look forward to getting to know you all! 

I have a rater long question as I am scared as a first time Fukien Tea (or any Bonsai) owner. Carmy is my baby.

My carmona is doing great 2 months after purchase from a garden centre. It put out a huge long shoot after watering for two weeks. Was prolly dry. I'm not sure what NPK to use but I have been feeding.

Facts
- INDOOR only
- watered twice daily or as needed
- kept in sunlight and even handles direct sunlight as not all day long. Tree seems to like it and as I think is tropical this made sense to meat least.
- room is warm (within 20 degress usually but some days has been 30 woth this global warming) and regularly mist tree and surroundings to keep humidity high
-Leaves shiny, budding loads

Some leaves are much darker than others and have little hairs. I assume this is normal! The other day the leaves felt sticky (no pun intended) but today they feel nice and smooth so assuming I had something on my fingers.

I keep finding these litter white motes all over the leaves, look like dust from toilet paper. Then I realised there were more around the budding flower stems. Then I found a GROSS white aphid looking thing sucking on my poor tree! I've since found a few others, gathering where it Carmy is trying to push out new buds. 

Live in West bucks, Britain.

I've been spraying the tree down to wash off what I now assume are pupae (with a gentle mister). Please help!

Is there something I can kill these with and did I cause this? I'd attach pictures but I don't know how to show
past photos which I took before squishing the buggers. I'm sorry. If anyone can tell me I'd be greatly appreciative!

Many thanks
Kai

you should be watering as needed, twice a day sounds a lot. 20 is hot. Tit sounds like wooly aphid or mealy bug, the best way to get rid of them is with a cotton bud and methylated spirit. The species is very difficult to keep alive for very long, it needs sunlight and humidity. A picture would help.

"Hot" is subjective. Around here it hasnt dropped down to 20 since April. Today was a comfortable 30, cool for the last month.

My grader, from southern India, said today was cold.

My carmona survived 5 degrees all winter in a heated overwintering room. It suffered in peak summer every year when humidity was low. It needs hight humidity all year. Since Ivan says things are relative.....It needs more humidity than is healthy for a central heated house in temperate regions. This is not a species that can be kept alive in livingroom conditions long term.