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arielt21

New to owning a Ficus and need help!

10 years ago

Ok, so I have a couple of questions. I ordered a Fiddle Leaf Fig online from Home Depot. I was super excited to get started re-potting this beautiful specimen and enjoy it daily in my home. When the plant arrived I quickly jumped the gun and re-potted it in a beautiful pot. I live in Texas and come March it is already warm and the days are longer so I felt it was ok to re-pot. It has been 15 days and the plant has perked up beautifully. It was then I found this forum and started reading more into the plant and realized that I did a lot of things wrong:(

I thought I was using good soil but turns out reading all these post I am not. I am using a regular organic gardening soil with hard mulch mixed in to give the plant some air. I also have rocks at the bottom for drainage. I am thinking I have put this plant in water retentive soil and am not giving this plant the right start it deserves. I have also noticed since then that it seems as though there are two plants. I would like to make my own mix of soil and separate these two trees into separate pots but I do not want to stress the trees out to much considering I have already re-potted.

My question is, should I wait to re-pot and separate til next year or wait a month to let the plant settle and do it. We are entering into summer which I know is the best time to do work with this plant so I want to be prepared.

I am including three pictures of my plant. First one is right after re-pot, Second one is a picture of the two trunks at the base and Third picture is my Ficus perked up after 15 days.

Any and all advice is welcome! Thank you very much in advance!!!

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