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Hi,
I need some help with my 4-year-old fiddle leaf fig.
I'm new here, and there is probably already a thread about this, but I can't really navigate here yet. So, I'll make a new thread since I feel like I'm running out of time
Last week I noticed some brown spots on the leaves, and during the last 5 days, it lost 3 leaves.
The last leaf fell this morning.
Also, it started to grow some new leaves last week, but now the top new leaf is decaying, going from bright green to brown and dead in just a few days.
I water it maybe once every two to three weeks, but the last two weeks I might have watered it once a week...
And right now in Sweden, it's wintertime, and the sun is only up for like 4 hours.
Everything points towards root rot, but I'm not too familiar with this and would like some help on how I might be able to save the plant.
The thing I struggle with is determining if the roots are rotting or if they are "older" and just a bit darker/brown for that reason.
They don't feel mushy, in my opinion, and they are not tearing. The thick roots in the middle are very dark and hard but more like solid "tree" roots, but maybe they are supposed to be white also?
What I've done so far this Sunday is:
- Bought a new pot + new dirt.
- Removed as much of the old dirt as possible and freed the roots.
- Let the roots be out in the air for like 1+ hour.
- Tried to spot rooting rots (this is where I struggle).
- Placed the plant in new dirt that was damp and not wet (less dirt than it sat in before).
- Topped up with some new fresh damp dirt.
- Added two 800 lumen growing lamps from IKEA timed to give the plant 7 hours of light a day.
- Added a moisture meter that sits at a level 5 atm.
I would really need some help in determining if the darker roots in the pictures are actually because of root rot or if they look fine?
And since it's the main thick roots that are dark, is the plant done for if I cut them off, or will it be able to survive on the small tiny ones?
Can I propagate it to give the plant a chance to regrow and survive, or is that also too late since the new leaf is wilting away?
Any tips will be helpful!
Thanks in advance!
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Hi,
I need some help with my 4-year-old fiddle leaf fig.
I'm new here, and there is probably already a thread about this, but I can't really navigate here yet. So, I'll make a new thread since I feel like I'm running out of time
Last week I noticed some brown spots on the leaves, and during the last 5 days, it lost 3 leaves.
The last leaf fell this morning.
Also, it started to grow some new leaves last week, but now the top new leaf is decaying, going from bright green to brown and dead in just a few days.
I water it maybe once every two to three weeks, but the last two weeks I might have watered it once a week...
And right now in Sweden, it's wintertime, and the sun is only up for like 4 hours.
Everything points towards root rot, but I'm not too familiar with this and would like some help on how I might be able to save the plant.
The thing I struggle with is determining if the roots are rotting or if they are "older" and just a bit darker/brown for that reason.
They don't feel mushy, in my opinion, and they are not tearing. The thick roots in the middle are very dark and hard but more like solid "tree" roots, but maybe they are supposed to be white also?
What I've done so far this Sunday is:
- Bought a new pot + new dirt.
- Removed as much of the old dirt as possible and freed the roots.
- Let the roots be out in the air for like 1+ hour.
- Tried to spot rooting rots (this is where I struggle).
- Placed the plant in new dirt that was damp and not wet (less dirt than it sat in before).
- Topped up with some new fresh damp dirt.
- Added two 800 lumen growing lamps from IKEA timed to give the plant 7 hours of light a day.
- Added a moisture meter that sits at a level 5 atm.
I would really need some help in determining if the darker roots in the pictures are actually because of root rot or if they look fine?
And since it's the main thick roots that are dark, is the plant done for if I cut them off, or will it be able to survive on the small tiny ones?
Can I propagate it to give the plant a chance to regrow and survive, or is that also too late since the new leaf is wilting away?
Any tips will be helpful!
Thanks in advance!
