With the shades, you’ve giving it practically no usable light and it’s dropping leaves for that very reason.

Don’t close the shades ever. Give it all the light that it can get.

its too bad there is so much “no direct sunlight” information on the Internet. It’s misleading.

I used to have a love/hate relationship with my fiddle until I figured out exactly what it wanted/needed. In my (limited) experience, fiddles need very very bright light. Direct sun has sunburned mine in the past, but otherwise the brighter the better. Open up that shade! :) I don't have a lot of advice to offer on the yellowing leaves other than maybe it didn't appriciate the extremes of letting it totally dry up, then watered thoroughly. Truly pain in the butt plants, but worth the effort!

Thank you for your quick and informative responses! I open the shades until the sun is beaming directly on the leaves and thats when I close them. I read that direct sun on the plant is not good, is that true? I did come across conflicting bright vs indirect so I’m a little confused as what the best light situation is. It was doing fine for almost 3 weeks (no yelowing) until it dried out when I was gone (all leaves were drooping). Hopefully yhe yellowing doesnt spread to the rest of the leaves. What direction window is best light for this plant?

Dina, I think direct sunlight is fine, as long as it's not baking in the summer sun. For example, when I first moved to Colorado I put my fiddle in the wrong spot out on the south facing deck. It got direct summer sun and sunburnt a majority of the leaves. I then moved it to the other side so it was still getting super bright light but not direct sunrays. It THRIVED. It grew tons of massive leaves! In October I brought it in for the winter. It's now in my bedroom in front of a west facing window and gets late evening direct sun, but the sun is not strong enough to burn. Personally I don't think your yellowing leaves has to do with the light, more likely the watering.. or lack thereof. :) Hope that helps! I added a photo of my funny fiddle just because.

Thank you Lisa. I’m thinking it’s dryness/water stress too due to sudden heat. But now I wont be afraid let let the sun shine on it since it’s winter. Your fiddle leaf looks green and healthy! I’m hoping I won’t kill mine, it’s my first and I’m kind of hovering over it ;)

Direct sun through a window is fine as it’s being filtered by the glass.

The only thing you ever need to worry about is heat built up if you have extremely stagnant air in your house.

We purchased some windows for a fixer-upper a couple of years ago. There are several different sorts of window glass. They were marketed as having various heating/AC benefits. The different sorts of windows and window glass must, - perhaps, maybe - affect plant light differently too. I really don't know. Just a thought.

Until recently I couldn't keep my FLF alive - it had dropped all it's leaves and all that remained was the leafless stem. I have made a few changes and now it it sprouting new leaves like crazy:

1. I repotted in into a large spacious pot with compost-rich soil

2. I try to move it as little as possible

3. I give it a small splash of water once or twice a week. This goes against everything I have read but took the advice from a friend and seems to work a charm!

I agree with 2 (unless the move is to a spot with the potential to raise the plant's level of vitality), but 1 & 3 have inherent issues that are going to need work-arounds in the not too distant future.

Al

Omg Al that has been the best explanation... I hate just being told it’s too much of this and too little that. I need to have the full explanations of the whys and what fors behind it all so I can make complete sense of what is happening. Thank you sooo much from both me and my 8 fiddleleaf fig plants.