Plant is too dry or too wet.

i cant tell much of anything from the pic provided ... lol ...

return it ... if she just bought it.. it may have been highly stressed before she ever got it ...

in the alternative.. having been shipped from grower.. to seller to her house.. its highly stressed.. and a little leaf damage is usually not that big a deal .. though it would have probably been significantly worse.. had she planted it ...

bigbox????

ken

My friend and I drove an hour and a half to pick up my Berry Dazzle dwarf crape myrtle, at a very large nursery, NOT a big box store. While we were there in Candyland for gardeners, my friend spotted a dwarf fig tree, something she'd been after for a long time. All their trees looked in top health. I haven't seen the fig since we brought it back to Baltimore.

What kind of fig? Do you have botanical name?

Strongly suspect it's a F. benjamina, notorious for dropping practically all its leaves whenever it's moved to a new location, whether it's town to town or from one corner of a room to another. And yes, water stress is also a common problem with them...

Shax, no, it's not an ornamental house plant. It's a tree which produces edible figs.

If it is a Ficus carica, which is the common fig (in the U.S.), then it probably needs full sun all day long. There are dwarf versions such as Little Miss Figgy. Have her move it to full sun and water when the soil feels dry to the touch. Will be difficult to overwater this in full sun in a pot.