Plant Mother or father
The leaves have gotten crunchy and browning.
The general plant:
Gentle state of affairs: solely oblique mild – the solar by no means shines instantly on the plant.
How do you establish WHEN to water? I observe the schedule I used to be informed/researched for this plant – when the soil is now not moist 2 inches deep.
Describe HOW you water: I absolutely soak the soil, letting extra water drain away.
Different data: I put a small humidifier beside it lately.
Fertilizer: I’ve at all times used Miracle Gro tropical combine.
Darryl
Thanks for the photographs and care particulars.
Since your plant has lately moved from the nursery/store to your house, it can undergo a number of weeks of adjustment as a result of new atmosphere. Particularly, a lot decrease mild ranges – though you’ve massive, floor-to-ceiling home windows, the balcony overhang considerably reduces the overall seen sky obtainable to your plant. With a light-weight meter, I may inform you this might not be above 200 FC – and in keeping with my chart of sunshine necessities by plant, a fiddle leaf fig gained’t develop nicely until the oblique mild ranges are above 400 FC a lot of the day. A number of hours of direct solar would have additionally been nice however maybe your facet of the constructing doesn’t see the solar.
Your watering and fertilizing practices are superb however the actuality is the overall variety of leaves on a plant shall be dictated by the quantity of sunshine it receives every day. The plant you purchased, with that many leaves, is a results of nursery stage lighting – which is 2000 – 5000 FC a lot of the day. So now that your plant has considerably much less mild, it can inevitably lose the decrease leaves till the overall variety of leaves might be supported by its present mild state of affairs.
If you happen to actually wish to preserve this fiddle leaf as lush as doable, I recommend you get a develop mild: I used the Miracle LED Bulb in a regular desk lamp fixture and positioned it at a distance such that the highest leaf was seeing 800 FC – and stored the sunshine on for 14 hours a day:
Although that is beside a big window (with out an overhang), I used to be measuring the oblique mild solely the within the 200-400 FC vary so I made a decision to make use of the develop mild to get the sunshine ranges near 800 FC to make sure the plant would develop nicely – and it did!
That is why realizing how you can use a light-weight meter is so vital: you possibly can’t simply level a develop mild at a plant and hope for the very best…it’s worthwhile to measure the sunshine and evaluate it to recognized values for good development.
However discover on the ground: leaves have a restricted lifespan – I nonetheless misplaced the decrease leaves alongside the stem occasionally. That’s to be anticipated!