Forget misting at any time, it's useless. And get it OUT of the shade into the brightest light you can all day long (and longer). Don't use rooting hormone on existing roots, it's only meant to stimulate growth where there are none, and certainly not on an already stressed tree. Do set up a wide tray of stones and water under the pot for humidity, but never ever allow the water to reach the pot bottom (and rot roots). Do get it all under glass or at least a clear plastic bag (unfastened) for now, but keep a very close eye on it for too much condensation actually running down the bag (vs a few drops hanging on) or you'll run into other trouble.

Thanks everyone. I think it was the newspaper; it was saturated. However, when we initially watered the pot last weekend, we saw water draining through the bottom. What's more, today my husband put the EMPTY pot on the back lawn to hose it out (to get rid of the stinky soil smell), and he noticed the water didn't drain well through the bottom, even WITHOUT the newspaper at the bottom. Prior to being re-potted, the Kumquat was in this same pot in a good commercial potting mix. However, the ONLY other variable I can think of is that the pot sat on top of bricks around the perimeter, raising it off the ground. Since the drainage holes are almost level with the bottom of the pot, I think there may not be enough space for water to drain out when the pot sits flat on the ground. Does that make sense? The new Meyer lemon was also re-potted last weekend, but into a smaller pot, in the same mix and also with newspaper at the bottom. My husband said the water didn't spill out when the pot was tilted --- however, there may be some perched water closer to the bottom. I'm at my wit's end. I'm not allowed to garden (or do pretty much everything else I enjoy) at the current time due to an arm injury that isn't healing, and I work full time during the week. I'm not allowed to do my favorite activities, but golly gee there's no restriction from working full-time at a computer job I don't enjoy! :(

Thanks, Josh. Tom, Honestly, I haven't developed a seasonal watering regimen with this plant yet. I've only had it for about 6 months. I read somewhere that they go dormant in Winter but I haven't seen that yet. It's actually raining at the moment and I'm glad I moved it to the greenhouse. It already had 3 weeks of consecutive rainfall, 3 weeks of staying wet and survived! I'm glad it's not going for week 4, I'll say that.

Hey guys, first of all, thanks to everyone that's helping. I've learned so much in the past two days. Specially Dave and Al...thank you teachers! :) So sorry about in the instrusion, I'm another one with fiddle leaf problems. I think I was sold a sick FLF...the guys just told me that it was in direct light all day long, so I thought the brown spots were justified. Until I got home and realized the soil was really compact...really....compact and soggy...and loads of rocks on top, which probably wouldn't help. So what I've did pretty fast, I went into despair...I've tried to repot it...and..of course I the roots just broke in half, and they were almost black and quite smelly... I didn't have anything around other than regular soil with perlite, so I just moved the lyrata and the now shorter roots too a new dry vase with some brick pieces at the bottom and that soil...the soil it's very loose and didn't compressed whatsoever. Didn't watered since, two days now. So after reading all of your kind info, Tomorrow I'm going too: 1. Clean the remaining roots as well as I can without damaging it more.. 2 .Repot, with 5:1:1 mix...Pine bark, Turf (should I?), Perlite; and some brick pieces in the bottom. 3. Water the lyrata once like flushing, right? And then again.. 4. The bottom leaves are very very rigid almost like they are about to break, I've read one Al's comment about "the end of life" process of these leaves...Should I cut the last leave and put the trunk deeper so it forms new healthy roots? (if this makes any sense at all) 5. Pruning, I was thinking about cutting the top (last picture), but as the bottom leaves are so stiff, maybe they aren't able to produce that much "food" and I should keep the top one for now? (I'm I thinking stupid??) 6. The only I had to cover the pot was sawdust, with which I have been lucky in protecting my plants from pests and mould. Again...in a despair act..should I maintain this? Can you help me please?? I'm based in Sintra,Portugal; very warm and humid location, actually humidity is a problem around here. Any advice is most welcome! thanks!