When they fine roots die off from rot, the feeder ones, it is senseless in fertilizing and it fact harmful. The salts from the fertilizer further burn them because they are not utilizing them at all. So you have a two fold problem, especially this time of the year which most people have in our area. Don't feel bad. All you have to do is find a way to get the mix to dry out faster for now, before you do a repot. I would tell everyone to stop watering it and you be in full control. Use wicks at the bottom and elevate the pot so the water is tricked to dry out past the root zone even faster. Or, you could stick that pot in a bigger one filled with mulch on the bottom of the empty pot and rest that pot on top of it. The bottom mulch will pull out the extra moisture killing your plant. These are just quick fixer upper. Ideally, I would transplant that tree into a better mix once it gains strength from longer or sunnier warm days. Then I would do half and half your potting mix with perlite. Even better, learn to make your own. There are many ways to do this shown on the 'containers' forum and even here. Just type in 5.1.1 or gritty mix and it will show you. Too, you could find a Fafard distributor and get the Nursery mix which I know you will find. Temps. can be a huge factor.. If you are providing very warm temps and little light, you will get a weak spindly plant with leaf and pest issues. If provide cool temps and little light, it will be good. They can handle various temps though without doing what yours is doing. Hope this helps Mike

I would take them all out and start over with something that you know what it is, what rootstock it is on, etc.

You have included no information re: your climate zone, nor how you plan to overwinter this small, young tree. This size plant needs lots of TLC for the cool winter weather. If you allow the sprouts to grow from the bottom portion of the stem, you will eventually have a bushy plant. Allowing only the main stem to grow, and removing bottom shoots will give you a standard, tree-form with a single stem. It depends on what you want. Multi-stemmed bushes will give you more figs, and more insurance in case some stems are killed back in cold weather. In any event, you can let that small tree grow for a number of years before deciding which way to go. You can always air-layer all the extra stems, and start new trees. You have many options. Good luck, good growing. Frank

Thank you Tom. I will be keeping an eye on it. It might be scale, I noticed some white stuff on the bottom two leaves that I wiped off and it was living by a lucky bamboo that was infected with scale. I don't know if it can pass from plant to plant though, can it? Here are a couple closer pictures of the leaves, it looks like something is eating away it them, one is with flash to show the details a little bit better, one without to show the true color better. you can sort of see the whitemail stuff coming back down in the lower right of the picture by the middle of the leaf. Breanne