Thank you tarev. I guess I tend to be overly cautious. It is in a cactus soil that drains very well. I will try again with my phone camera tomorrow. The sickly tree is between two and three years old, though it has always been the smallest and skinnest of the five I have, it's about eight inches tall and has been kept in a 10" wide 8" deep terra cotta pot. How long should I allow it to dry out before giving up hope? And if it is the opposite, that it needs more water, am I going to kill it by drying it out like this? I don't want to do the wrong thing and make it worse.
