Shocked Fig Tree from Repotting - Please Help
Lance Jubel
7 years ago
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoErnie
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Fig tree transplant shock
Comments (4)We planted Fig trees in late May and they lost all the leaves and fruits due to the transplant shock and this unusually dry and hot summer in TX didn't help either. But we are watering faithfully and I put some Miracle grow fruit tree fertilizer (the stick kind you bury by the root) and Black mission fig is finally putting out some gorgeous new leaves. I don't know if it'll bear fruit this year but I think they will come back well established and strong next Spring. We had a big older fig tree that was uprooted by the storm and we couldn't replanted without cutting off the tap root which was so deep and after that the tree never recovered. If you did not cut the main root, then my guess is tree will recover but sounds like root might be damaged. Keep water and watch and if it does the same thing by next Spring I would consider planting a new tree....See MoreFiddle Leaf Fig Drooping After Repot/Root Pruning- Help!
Comments (64)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!...See MoreHow to Reduce Shock when Repotting?
Comments (15)nikthegreek, I agree with you on your opinion with 511. I live in a hot and humid climate, but my trees do have to come inside for 3-4 months of the winter. I live in middle Georgia. I have used a peat based product for many years and never had an issue with root rot. I hardly have to water during the winter and the trees get through it just fine. I just repotted 2 trees recently that were in a peat based product for over 10 years due to my ignorance and there was no sludge at the bottom of the pots. I don't understand why not after reading other people saying there would be. I just found lots of roots. I also repotted a bunch of my other trees which were in the same growing medium for about 3 years and again no sludge. Just roots. The only thing I can think of to explain it would be the type of fertilizer used. Maybe the type of fertilizer breaks down the growing medium. My trees mainly get Jobes Organic Citrus and Fruit Tree fertilizer because that is all I could find locally. I just started using Foliage Pro last year on a sporadic basis, so we will see what I find next year when my smaller trees need to be repotted. A lot of people disagree with me here and on other social media about using a peat based product, but it works for me so I will stick with it. This year I did add pine bark and extra perlite for extra drainage because my pots are quite a bit larger than I have used in the past. Again, I will see how my soil is in another year or so. I firmly believe that there are different growing mediums that can be used for citrus. It all depends on your location and what's available. Citrus is grown all around the world and not everybody uses 511. Youtube has taught me that....See MoreWeak Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree - Repot now or wait?! Please help!
Comments (3)I wish whoever ran this forum would post at the top that this section is for edible figs. Newcomers and people new to plants would obviously have no idea since their tree is nicknamed “fig” and this section is also for figs. This part of the forum could be set up to be less confusing to some...See MoreLance Jubel
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