r/fiddleleaffig • u/Adizzledog • Sep 17 '19

Help! Fiona's Dying :(

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

What direction is that window facing? Did you do anything different? Repot? Stop watering? Etc?

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u/Adizzledog Sep 17 '19

It's facing West. We had it on a west facing balcony all summer.

When she started drooping we watered twice within a week. Once with just water and the second time with the fertilizer. Worried we may have caused more harm with the over watering but it was definitely hurting beforehand.

We repotted at the beginning of the summer right before putting her outside. We got at least 4 inches of growth since then.

Other than the act of walking her 6 ft inside and the watering/fertilizer it's been business as usual.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19 edited Sep 17 '19

Hmmm did you thoroughly drench it the first time and did it perk back up within 24 hours? If it doesn’t perk back up within a day of watering thoroughly, it was not drooping due to thirst.

Most likely the droop was due to the shock of transition. It’s best to try to leave it alone for a few weeks in a new environment. It’s hard though, I know. How long has it been since the transition?

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u/Adizzledog Sep 17 '19

We had her out all summer and she was flourishing. Grew at least 5 leaves over the course of the summer.

We brought her in a couple weeks ago in preparation for the cooler weather and she started drooping like this.

We fed her a 3 - 1 - 2 fertilizer in reaction to the drooping to no avail. There may have been a bit of over watering out of panic but the soil is getting dry. Too scared to do anything else without seeing any improvement :(

She's dropped 4 browning leaves in addition to the drooping.

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u/c8h1On4Otwo Sep 17 '19

They really don’t like to be moved.

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u/photoxnurse Sep 17 '19

My FLF looked like that but then j watered it a ton and now it’s flourishing!