I'm sure it will be fine, I've done the same thing with some of my plants and they survived. There are some plants that you cant disturb the root ball but this is not one of them.. Others will come along and give you more advice :>) Christine

Don't bother misting it. You can't most enough to compensate for 16% humidity, and you might actually be increasing water loss in the same way our hands dry out badly in the winter if we do anything with water - evaporating water molecules On the surface adhere to water molecules in the tissues and draw them out. Im pretty sure it also happens in plants. I have only my tiny phone screen to view this, but am I seeing some leaves that are brown at the base, or brown in the middle rather than just at the ends? Are the leaves turning yellow before they turn brown? It doesn't look like it to me. I also don't see any wilting, and the dying leaves aren't mostly at the bottom. If I'm seeing it correctly, there are areas of dead/dry/brown tissue all over the plant, but there are no yellow leaves and the plant isn't wilting. To me, that makes a watering issue unlikely, too much water will turn leaves yellow and/or cause wilting. Too little water will cause wilting before leaves turn brown. I know of only two or three things that cause tissue to die right in the center of long leaves while leaving the bases and ends of the leaves green (temporarily, anyway): freezing or sunburn, sometimes heat can do it. Are you certain there isn't any direct sun on it? The sun is low this time of year so the sun's rays reach farther into windows than when it's higher. Direct southern sun is currently coming over 20 feet into my apartment. In the summer it's only about 2 feet. Are you home often enough to know for sure it hasn't gotten scorched? Are you sure it's out of the way of any heat source? Going completely dry twice in two weeks seems strange to me, but if you're humidity is only 16%, maybe that's not so odd (70% in my cool apartment in the gloomy Pacific NW). Don't let it go completely dry. I hear people refer to completely dry often, and I'm not sure they really mean completely dry. If it is completely dry, then root hairs and whole root systems will die and the plant won't be able take up water when it is watered, and then it will rot, if you poke a pencil all the way to the bottom of the pot, there should be some evidence of moisture when you bring it back up - even just a cool sensation when you touch the pencil to your upper lip, but preferably a wee bit more than that. If you really have been letting it go bone dry, as another poster stated, hydrophobic growing media will be a problem, and those spots might be killing sections of root. Soak the whole pot in a bucket of 70-90 degree water for about 15 minutes or until the pot sinks and it no longer bubbles, then resume watering Normally but don't let it dry out so much between waterings. You haven't fertilized it or anything, have you? Fertilizer burn will quickly cause brown tips in plants with no wilt or yellowing. Don't fertilize until it's actively growing in spring. Last question: it wasn't near heat in the nursery or store, was it? A couple months ago my local Walmart had the overhead heating system on full blast in the semi-outdoor garden center...and they had dozens of plants just a couple of feet from red-hot heating elements. I couldn't hold my hand above the plants for over a few seconds without becoming uncomfortable. Of course, all those plants formed large dead areas within a few days, but I'm certain many unwary people brought them home first and couldn't figure out why their plants were drying suddenly just days after purchase.

Your trees look normal. The older leaves are supposed to point down. That looks like a nice spot for it next to the window. The top leaves are starting to lean toward the window. Rotating it halfway around every a couple weeks should keep it even. Does this pot have a hole in the bottom? 6-8 cups of water should be enough for some to run out of the hole. If it has one, maybe something is blocking it.

Thank you Ken. It helps to have someone out there to talk to about this! I don't get out often, except maybe the the day I got the soil. Yes, I realize now it needs full shade with lots of light around it. By the way, I live in Los Angeles. What zone is that? To answer some questions/give more info: No fertilizer in the soil. The pot has drainage, and I made sure to create good drainage as I planted the tree in. It's not all just dense soil. There are a lot of 2" rocks placed within the soil. I used a tad bit of pumice in the soil as well. Maybe I shouldn't have done that??? Like I said, I'm a novice, but I have been a renter all my life and have been a "porch planter" gardener for some 30 years. By trial and error, I've learned a few things. This is a different animal however. I think I'm going to have to get a little platform with rollers (which I didn't want to do because I don't like how it looks). There's bright shade at the front of the house -- where I'll never see this thing. I want it in the back where I can. There's the north end of the (outside of the ) house, but I'd have to move it during the rains, and probably mid summer (I'm guessing). Thank you for all your help. I do not want to kill this beautiful tree.