Hi, Just bought a fiddle leaf fig about 1.5 months ago. It is roughly 5-6ft tall, in a small pot, and has two branches. The leaves are getting brown spots RAPIDLY! It looks worse every day. I determined that I was likely overwatering, so I put it on a watering schedule. I also moved it from the dim back corner of the living room, to in front of our (only) living room window! I live in Los Angeles, so things have been HOT and DRY. I have been wiping down the leaves periodically, but it is still browning, despite new growth on the top of both branches! HELP! I spent too much for this plant to die on me. It looks pretty awful. I have been considering repotting, as the pot it is in is quite small and the soil and roots seem very compacted. However, the internet tells me that the best times to repot are June and July. Would it be okay to root prune and repot now? It is still roughly 90 degrees daily here in LA, and we are getting lots of sun! I want my tree-baby to thrive! Would love any feedback!

Pictures would help a lot; include the whole plant and one of the pot and soil. What did you do when you put it in the 17 inch pot? Put the existing rootball in the pot and surround it with fresh soil or remove the old soil and replace it? What kind of soil was it in and what kind of fresh soil was it? Was it rootbound? It's possible the new pot is too big, making the soil stay very wet for too long, causing roots to suffocate for lack of air to pull oxygen from. If so, the easiest remedy would be to put it back in the old pot and wait until June to repot in a faster draining highly aerated soil that would be harder to overwater. Meanwhile, check out the posts upthread about watering, using a dowel to check soil moisture, and the kinds of soil and light conditions lyratas do best in, and start to water only when the soil at the bottom is the pot is dry. Lenore

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

with browning leaves.. it was previously stressed ... so you stressed it more with repotting ... you are going to have to just let it settle down and see what happens in the next 4 to 6 weeks ... and in the meantime.. just water it properly ... it may lose all its leaves.. but there may be a good chance.. if the repotting solved some issue.. that it can releaf im wondering why you didnt up pot ... or if you did.. how small the previous pot was ...