Centaura,
Sorry to hear about your computer. As Durante used to say, "what a revoltin' development!"
As for your lacebark, remember that it's native to China, and your specimen was probably grown somewhere else in the Yew Ess. So it's a bit out of its element in more ways than one, and needs a year or two to adapt. Kansai was probably right.
Will we see you at the workshop with Bob Eskeitz on Saturday? (My daughter wants me to put a smilie here, namely this one:
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