I've had a small (3 foot) fig tree for about a year or so. Recently I moved it into a new house where it got moderate light from bright bay windows. It not subjected to any drafts of any kind. All the sudden it began dropping leaves at an incredible rate. Two of the three main limbs were completely bare. I panicked. I let the soil dry out and moved it closer to the window (which has a thin sun filter on it to protect the furniture from fading) and watered it again. No water came out into the saucer. It stopped dropping leaves and now the two limbs that are bare are very dry and brittle. The bark is shriveled and it looks like it was obvioulsy thirtsy. Today the leaves on the one good trunk are dry and wilted. I watered it thoroughly with some fertilizer. Do you think I should cut off the other limbs? They are about 1 inch in diameter. Any ideas to what could be causing this problem. This plant has incredible sentimental value to me and I want to do everything I can to help it out. Thank you so much for any advice. :0) Also, I have found some very small mushrooms in the soil. With heads on them about the size of a dime. They are white or grey in color. Is there something wrong with my soil? It seems fine but the mushrooms are throwing me off and also the fact that the plant seems dry. Any help would be much appreciated.

Erica

Thank you so much for your reply! I am wondering if this pot even has holes going to the drainage saucer though because I got it on sale and it looks like it has some glue on the bottom part. Kind of hard to explain but i am wondering if I should move it to a better drained pot and see if that makes a difference. Do you think this would be too much stress? I don't think I have ever seen water come out of the bottom of this ceramic pot and I am thinking it is just soaked way down in there. Let me know what you think. Thank you so much for your advice!!

Mr. will creed helped me with this one over the summer ^.^ He wrote a ficus manual of some sort.

What a ficus does is it grows leaves that are used to a certain type of light. So when different kinds of light are introduced, the ficus drops those leaves, and grows new ones that are more used to the new light. So don't change watering habits m'kay? That'll just put more stress on the plant.

*thinks* So ya, when your plant rains leaves, don't do anything but care for it like you would normally ^.^ They do like having indirect sunlight from what i've experienced

~Phoebe

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Erica, when you transplant in a pot, just run the water through slowly for a few minutes-making sure water is flowing out the bottom. Make sure the water is clean/clear to flush out excess fertilizer and this will "clean" the roots as well. let it drain then place in a dish to catch the excess of the water. then place in a west window. It will grow new leaves soon. Robert

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