Fruits and Nuts: Petite Negra fig losing leaves, 1 by pbyrley

pbyrley wrote:
Hi Dierdre,

My potted figs are outside all the time (for the Summer) and I sometimes let them dry out until they wilt. My point is, you may want to consider watering only when your little figgy begs, for a day, That will tell you it's not sitting with totally wet feet which is a sure cause of brown, falling leaves. I'd guess it will take a few days or more to let the roots recover from rotting so you can just limit the amount to, maybe one 8 oz measuring cup a day after one day with no water.

Now, you really may want to devote some time to one of the Dave's Garden experts on soil mixes for container growing. His username is TAPLA and I have read for, it seems like, hours on his instructions. Look on Soil and Composting forum. A good one to read is titled "Tapla - Question about container soil for transplant" and tonight the last post was on Sept. 4, 2010. This one isn't too long and stays on one subject while the one that I read for hours wandered around a lot. I thoroughly enjoyed the longer thread but I wasn't worrying about a sick fig. After you read Tapla's info, you will likely want to re-pot your fig and your calamondin but I don't know. I have a back yard and it's easy for me to re-pot stuff. At any rate, you will at least know a lot more about container gardening.

Good luck,

Paul