Beautiful plant! I've never had a Fiddle Leaf Fig, but I've heard they don't like a lot of water, and that's about as far as my knowledge goes on them. Good Luck!

Easy Ficus species. Are you leaving it in the house or placing it outside. Don't know your zone in Fl.. Obviously, if you have frosts, it'll have issues as it is not cold hardy. It still needs a bigger pot; remember, this wants to be a really BIG TREE. Soil sounds good. Don't neglect watering but it does take drought well.

Subtropix, zone 9. I'm keeping it indoors in a bright corner of the house. I did put it in a bigger pot (10"). I read that if the pot was too big it may overwhelm the plant. I was thinking of increasing the pot size every spring. Thoughts?? Most things I read said the best way to water was to wait until water drains out of the bottom and then water again??

If t he pot in the picture is the upgrade, I think that the pot is still too small. Watering, yes, drench, then wait till it dries some. You can back off on watering in the winter. Like I said, easy plant. Easier than F. elastica in the house in my opinion.

yes, it is in a bigger pot now. That was the nursery pot it came in. For some reason I was told to keep it in that same pot until I saw new growth. I decided to upgrade the pot. Thank you for your help.

Great! The only problem with this Ficus (fig) is that it gets too big in the average house. Yes, you can always prune back and maintain pot size to stunt growth. If you like this fig, another good one for the house is Ficus macrophylla. As most sold in the North, mine was supposed to be a 'bonsai'. I decided I'd rather have the banyan tree it was meant to be. Leaves just hold MUCH better than its similar but more familiar cousin, F. benjamina. Actually, my banyan is my Christmas tree in December. Good luck with your Ficus!

Thank you, Al. I'm starting to learn the terminology :) I only potted up. I loosened up the old soil around the roots before putting it in the new larger pot. I only increased the pot size by two inches because of the soil I chose. I hope I didn't make the wrong decision. My understanding was that it would overwhelm the plant too much if I potted it in anything over a 2" increase. My goal is for this plant to get much taller and to eventually get it in a larger pot (18"). I was going to wait until Spring.

If it was pot bound, you did what I would have done with one exception: I would have cut an 'X' in the bottom of the root mass with a utility knife and several slits in the sides to help stop j-hooked and circling roots, as well as roots growing back into the center of the root mass.

Al