I would be misting it with filtered water. Sounds like it needs water through the leaves.

-Little John

Misting won't help maintain turgidity, but raising the humidity around the tree and keeping it constant would. Move the tree to shade & out of wind, for now.

Your tree is probably showing a drought response. The list of likely causes includes a high level of soluble salts in the soil that is reducing the osmotic movement of water into cells, too little water (doubtful, by what you're relating), or too much water in the soil, which can slow water movement to the canopy by either lack of O2 in the root zone or rotted roots.

Which is more likely - too much salt (including fertilizer salts and salts from your tap water that tend to accumulate when you water in sips), or root-rot/lack of air in the root zone?

Lift the tree & look for white/tan fleshy roots (good). If roots are dark brown/black or stringy/slimy (bad), you need to do some root-pruning. Let us know.

Al

tapla you were correct!! when i took it out of the cup/pot the roots were all brown and sticky. they just fell off due to the soil clumping to it. I just changed out the soil trying to keep as much good root mass as possible. i believe the problem was too much water or the salts from the MG fertilizer stick. Form the looks on the outside I though there would be more roots but instead there were only coming from the bottom of the cutting and not the sides of it. This also gave it the feeling of the stick not being stable because it would also wobble.

thanks tapla for your information.