r/fiddleleaffig

Hi! While I have a lot of outdoor plants, but I am new to indoor plants. I found this FLF at Home Depot, I tried looking for one at some traditional nurseries with no success, so please don’t judge me for where I purchased it lol.

My question is, what should I do with it now? I’ve done a lot of research but find the best advice to come from people who actually care for these plants. I have a spot in my living room for it; there is bright, indirect light from a window but I also have a growing light if necessary.

I will gently wipe the dust off of the leaves, but should I repot it now, or wait? I know they are sensitive to stress. Should the soil it’s currently in suffice for now? Should I replace the soil? What kind of soil should I use. I also have a root supplement I got, I don’t know if it’s necessary or if it should only be used if the plant is sick or something of the sort. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

I bought my plant in November and for six months nothing happened— it just sat there. It didn’t show signs of stress, but there were no signs of growth. Then I got a grow light and fertilized it and went on vacation. I returned 8 days later to find that it has grown FOUR new leaves! 😍

I just moved to Japan and got a fiddle leaf fig on Amazon jp for 80 bucks. When I got the plant it was extremely root bound with roots poking out of the top and bottom, the plant is a little under 4 feet tall and its biggest leaves are 7 inches long and 6 inches across, I included some pictures out of the box and the leaves have now fallen and become a bit more droopy then when they were folded up out of the box. Do y’all think it’s a mature bambino or a stunted young standard?

Chopped this off but is this worth it. I think it's burned to even try to replant. Thank you for your help

I’ve had this large tree for a year now and it seems the full four seasons in my NYC apartment. As you can see, she’s in front of a big window, east facing.

My concern is that she’s not grown any new news. She’s lost probably 20 or 30 or so mostly from the bottom and mostly when I first bought her and during the winter when I mistakenly gave her some plant food she lost the most right after that incident.

I’ve had fiddles in the past that seemed to grow quite well in my various NYC apartments so I’m not sure what’s going on. The one thing I think that could be affecting it is that unfortunately the placement my air vent is right in front of the tree so during the winter it gets heat and now during the hot summer. Could that be the issue?

For now, she hasn’t dropped any leaves in the past few months and she looks lovely, but I want her to be healthy and no signs of new growth could mean that?

I have been giving her for the Lief plant food with every other watering, but still no dice in the spring to summer season.

My flf has gone dormant for the last year. Any ideas?
Should I move location?

Please help!

My boy was thriving after a chop and fresh repotting. It took some time, but he slowly started to bounce back, I gave him more light and slowly moved him onto the balc. Gave some fertilizer (just once, was thinking to include once a month) and he started thriving

He was doing so so well, I went away for 3 days and came back to these. I’m very attached to him (Hajipour), this is his third chop in about as many years, and we’ve been through a lot. My houseplants have been a mirror to my own health, and we’ve all been not-dead-but-not-the-most-alive for a long fucking time…I’ve brought Hajipour back from the brink multiple times and this time we were finally starting to move from Alive to Thriving AND IM VERY EMOTIONALLY ATTACHED TO THIS GODDAMN PLANT HE CANNOT FUCKING DIE AGAIN NOW.
Please come thru, flf-Reddit, praying for Reddit magic pls pls pls 🫶

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Total newbie here. I put this stick into water about 2 months ago. Dipped the bottom in rooting hormone powder, changed water every 5-7 days with a couple teaspoons of fiddle leaf fig liquid fertilizer. Amazed it seems to be doing well, aside from losing the first three leaves it grew.

But is it ready for soil??? I feel like my roots don’t look like any other pictures I’ve seen. Help?

I took this cutting around May 25. I still don’t see any roots, but it just started pushing out a new leaf. Is this a good sign, or can cuttings grow new leaves before they actually root? Has anyone else experienced this?

This plant has been growing like crazy lately and I want to make sure I’m doing things right before it gets too big, or too lanky, or too anything. I’ll take any advice you have!

I’ve had it a little less than a year, got her from a grocery store for $15 when it just had the bottom few leaves. It didn’t tolerate the transition well and dropped a couple of leaves before I found a good spot for it and got some new growth. Then a few months wintering under a grow light - those leaves were weak, you can see one that was damaged but still on the plant. Since going back outside in May, it has put out lovely, large leaves! It gets 8+ hours of indirect sunlight on the patio, plus lots of heat/wind/elements. But in the fall it will have to come back inside under the grow light. I don’t have a stake in it and it stands up very nice and tall, but I’m worried that if it keeps adding height it may become unstable.

thank you!

So I went away for a week and forgot to leave instructions for watering the plants. Before I left, this little branch didn't have any roots yet. When I got back, I saw that it had rooted, but I have no idea how long it went without water. Now it's all dried out. Do you think she still alive?the water you see now is from me.

Made 4 notches, one worked. Not sure why the bottom leaves remain droopy but she has been good to me so far! Should I notch it again? I am thinking of snipping the top as well, to encourage more branching.

My FLFs were constantly dropping leaves when living inside, even near windows. I got so mad one day I put them outside on my covered deck and said “you’re a plant - figure it out”. Oh my gosh this changed them! They’re sooooo happy now! I’m in Atlanta so get nice and toasty humidity. I water them every other day and get new leaves 1-2 weeks apart. I also chopped the smallest one about 2 months ago (it was a nightmare of a dying fiddle) and it’s grown back! I highly recommend moving them outside - I know it seems like odd advice - but it’s changed my plants entirely. I move them back inside with a grow light when temps go below 50.

Anyone do the same thing over the summer? Any tips to make them thrive even more?

Hi, this is my fiddle leaf fig that I got almost 3 months ago, its 1 tall thingy and I want it to have a branch come out one side. Is this too early to do that? It doesn't seem like its growing anything new right now.

Where do I start with it so that it eventually hopefully looks like the last example photo?

First photo from the top, then going down, then a full one , and the size of one of the leaves is till my elbow(i love her🥰). Total noob to this, any information is much appreciated 😊

I am in desperate need of guidance. My girlfriend’s FLF has been through some dire straits, and after an emergency repot to deal with root rot, has finally started sprouting new leaves. We also were able to split the roots and separate out a whole new tree!

Now for the current issues. As seen in the photos, most of the leaves were dropped due to the stressful repotting and aid, but have started sprouting new leaves. The issue is they’re very high on the plant and quickly approaching the ceiling. How do we curb the vertical growth and get more leaves without just pruning off the few existing leaves?
Second, there’s a dead branch sprouting that I think should come off, but I have no head if that actually helps or how close to the main branch to trim?

Please you guys, Figgy has been through so much and I’m confident she can thrive if I knew what to do

Is there any way to have the leaves grow from the middle or bottom again, even if it means trimming the stem?

I’m new to this plant and I only picked it up a few months ago. It seemed like it was going fine, but I moved it away from the direct sunlight into indirect sunlight as the leaves started browning. I then purchased a moisture meter at the time and for a long period the reading showed that it was well watered but this is when the leaves started dropping rapidly.

I then just decided to water and since then it’s looking healthy again. Going forward I’ll probably ignore those moisture meters and do the good old finger test.

Would love to hear from any experiences on having this look beautiful again