I think it's a fungal infection. I've seen it in mine. I can't remember what it's called but I think captan is effective.

The second picture looks like Magnesium definciency. What type of organic fertilizer did you wife use? Toni

Hi, I have an indoor ficus benjamina. The plant seems to have some sort of disease. On the stems of the leaves there are small white / brown waxy looking spots (as shown in the photo). They are hard and not furry / do not look like insects. After a while a lot of the infected leaves turn yellow and drop. Can anyone help identify the problem and solution? Much appreciated if you can. Thanks G

Not a large transplant at all, for a Cedrus. I have been fortunate to have been the recipient of two enormous (one was about 7' x 12', the other about 10' x 6') Cedrus that were in inconvenient places and in each case I was offered the tree if I could come and get it. I took a couple of guys and a trailer and in each case we dug them out with a minimum of roots (one was planted on top of road base and the root ball was about 3" thick!), brought them back here, planted and staked them. Neither ever had a single problem. Cedrus take to transplantation about as easily as any hard wood I know. They are native to areas with low summer humidity though, and that doesn't describe Greenville! Check out Tom Cox and John Ruter's excellent book, 'Landscaping with Conifers and Ginkgo for the Southeast.' They discuss cedars in depth, suggesting that C. atlantica performs best in zones 6 and 7 and is not recommended south of 8a. In acid soil they benefit from a liberal application of lime at planting. It is apparently slower growing the South than the other Cedrus species. This is just to put your tree in context. You want to get as many of the cultural requirements as nearly right as possible.