Ficus - care, reproduction, transplantation, growing in Q&A

Ficus turns yellow

Question: My ficus microcarpa began to turn yellow. How to help him? I bought it about a month ago. Transplanted 3-4 days after purchase, completely changed the land. I bought a special package-collection "Bonsai." I do not fill in unequivocally, rather I don't even top up. Not fertilized yet. It stands in the north, in the kitchen, one might say on the window.

Vitaly: It's all done right. After transplantation, the plant can lose several leaves and this is not scary, but here's one thing - do you have windows of a different orientation in your apartment, at least western or eastern? Rearrange there. If there are no lighter windows, then it is necessary to organize the illumination of the handle.

Caring for Ficus - in the Encyclopedia section.

How to root ficus

Question: How to root a ficus stalk from a dying plant?

agata: you need to wet the wet handle in the root, it is sold in flower shops, after 10 minutes lower the handle into boiled or spring water at room temperature. The dishes must be opaque. Throw a coal tablet into the water. If the handle begins to turn black below, urgently cut to healthy tissue and sprinkle with root. But about covering, I would not advise if the temperature is below 25 degrees, it can rot.

Severina: Did you wash the milky juice off the handle, and was it there? It was necessary to cut before the appearance of milky juice, if it is not there - the plant is dead and neither root nor coal will help it.

Further, it was necessary to cut off the extra leaves and leave only one or two upper ones, and even cut off half of the leaf for those to reduce the evaporated moisture.

Kornevin is a powder, more suitable to dunk and plant in the ground or landless mixture.
Heteroauxin - decomposes in the light, so dissolve, place the handle there and put it in a dark place for a day.
Kornerost, heteroauxin analog. Order of application, as in heteroauxin.

You can use scarlet juice, but everything is like for people, a sheet is not younger than 3 years old, aging in the refrigerator. There is no time for this. You can make a finished extract from the pharmacy, but if it is not an oil solution.

Root under a bag or jar, but you need to shoot when it takes root, and then not immediately, but gradually accustomed to the air of the room. Until rooting, only ventilate. Do not cover at all if there are no leaves.

Ficus dies, what to do

Question: Help, please, to determine what is the cause of the disease of my rubbery ficus. Acquired ficus 3 months ago, no such spots were observed in the store. I am afraid to ruin the flower by transplanting it a second time, and the first time the sellers in the store transplanted it from peat. The ground for ficus is very fat, saturated. Some flies started up in it, they were already etching the soil with phytoverm. We water it once every 7-10 days, since the pot is large, and I am obliged to wait for the whole earth to dry out after watering. And on the soil it is not mold, but crystals of some kind of salt appeared.

tasia: if flies appeared, this is a sign of overflow. They only appear in moist soil. Do not be afraid to loosen, ficus has powerful roots, they will not suffer much. If not loosened, they can suffocate. Carefully remove the topsoil (white plaque) and add fresh soil. Now I would not advise you to transplant, wait until spring. And it is impossible to water the days, in summer the soil dries quickly, in winter for a long time. I check my ficuses by weight: I lift the pot, if it is light, it means that the earth has dried up, if it is heavy, it has not dried up. Better to underfill than pour. Ficuses stand dry for 2-3 days completely painlessly.

Natalie: In order not to form such a huge amount of salt, water must be filtered. Of course, the earth must be loosened, otherwise it cakes, does not pass air well, and most root rots develop in conditions of lack of oxygen. In dense caked ground, roots are more likely to rot. It is necessary to water, not counting the days, and checking the soil with your finger - to the entire depth of your finger, the earth should be dry by the time of the next watering. All yellowed sheets and sheets with spots must be cut. Add trichodermin, phytosporin to the water for irrigation, you can use the drug "Maxim." This is necessary to restore the beneficial microflora of the soil and prevent the development of fungal and bacterial infection (satellites of fungal mosquitoes, due to waterlogging of the soil).

Spots on ficus

Question: My ficus got such a stain. Ficus is young, watering as it dries, daylight + artificial (because 1.5 meters from the window), t 23-24. Throughout it all, the leaves fell off. The antennae (new leaf) began to brown, fall off.

tasia: stains most likely from waterlogging if you sprayed it from pests. It is necessary to water not as it dries, but as it dries, i.e. so that the earth is completely dry.

Now loosen the soil and let it dry completely, then let it stand completely dry for two or three days. Only after that can you water. And so always.

If the pests were not treated, then it is imperative to treat.
The fact that his top was cut off is not scary. Will start new branches.

And do not twist it often, do not move from place to place.
If in a week or two it doesn't get better, look at the roots for decay. And if it gets worse, don't wait, get out and inspect the roots. Cut rotten, charcoal, plant again and not pour.

Question: New leaves on ficus grow clean, then such spots appear. There is enough light, it is warm, quite dry, in any case, it is not humid indoors, I have been living for three years. I don't water often.

july morning: Most likely a bay. I assume such options, choose:

the draft blows on the pot/the windowsill was cold in winter - after watering the roots were supercooled;
between watering, the earth does not have time to completely dry out (I check the entire length of my finger, if I'm not sure);
inside the root coma, the earth is heavy/compacted - everything is dry around the perimeter of the pot, and inside it is constantly damp;
maybe you don't pour the water out of the pallet on time.

Do I need to spray ficus

Question: Do I need to spray ficuses in winter?

agata: I don't spray mine at all, just when the batteries are very hot, cover them with a damp blanket. Everyone is happy. Thanks to Vitaly for this, he dispelled the myth that near the ficus you need to constantly stand with a splash and turn the apartment into a swamp. And in order not to pour, the pot needs to be taken quite a little more than the previous one and make good drainage.

Natalie: Ficuses need to be sprayed only in one case when the humidity at home has dropped below 30%. Such low humidity happens in crackling frosts in winter, when heating batteries heat up very much or in a small kitchen, where they rarely open the ventilation, but often cook on the stove or in the oven. The kitchen is not a place for ficus! A large, spacious dining room will do, but not the kitchen. And in winter, during the heating season, you can spray the leaves twice a day. If the humidity is above 30%, ficus does not need spraying. You just need to rinse it periodically in the shower to wash off the dust.

Ficus

leaves fall

Question: Curly ficus leaves fall (he is 1.5 years old), he always stood on the window, does not blow. I water, take care as always. At first I thought that it was just winter, lack of light, but the fall takes on some catastrophic dimensions.

Ms. Violet: If the green leaves fall, it may be due to lack of light, high temperature, low humidity and drying out of the soil at the roots. If the leaves turn yellow and fall, soil waterlogging or lack of nutrition may be the cause. And check if the pests have attacked. Benjamin's ficus can also react to the permutation, and not immediately, but after a couple of months, even if all the conditions of detention are normal.

Growing ficus benjamin

Ficus transplant after purchase

Question: What to do, after I bought ficus in the store, can I transplant?

Vitaly: You can now transfer it (namely to transfer, not transplant) to normal land. To do this, gently shake the plant out of the pot, lightly knock on the table with an earthen lump with roots. What pours - throw away; specially pick the ground with your fingers, straighten the roots or rinse the root system in order to completely remove the ground, DO NOT! What is left after shaking off must be planted in a pot that will be wider than an earthen coma with roots of only 2 fingers. Do not forget to put drainage. After transplanting, pour copiously on the plant and put in a sunny place without drafts. Perform the next watering only after the ground dries from above. Complete drying in the first stages should be avoided so as not to dry out the resulting young roots. But try not to fill the plant. A plant with a disturbed root system is not able to immediately absorb all the water.

Variegated ficus turned green

Question: Why are ficus leaves not variegated? Initially there were white spots.

NeTa: Variegated initially have less chlorophyll and more sunlight is needed to get the necessary volume of nutrients. And with a lack of light, the plant, fighting for its life, begins to produce chlorophyll, where it was not originally there, that is, in the unpainted parts of the leaf blades.

Miss Violet: The loss of variegation can be with a lack of lighting or if there is a lot of nitrogen in the soil. There are no other options.

tamaravn: Not only because of light (although this is usually the main reason), but also because of fertilizer, for example. Fertilizers containing organic matter (biohumus) easily cause greening in variegate plants, especially if they are used constantly. If the care conditions are normal, then the new leaves will be mottled.

Ficus Ali leaves fall

Question: In the fall they presented ficus ali, it was lush, they did not fill it with water, stood by the window, in winter the leaves began to fall, they remained only above and below.

Miss Violet: Ficus Ali refers to deciduous ficuses, so dropping leaves in winter is normal for him if the illumination is reduced. In the spring, the foliage will grow new. It can also shed leaves during the first weeks from the date of purchase during the period of adaptation to new conditions. In general, any deciduous ficus can shed up to 30% of leaves in winter and this is considered normal. But if he was created ideal conditions for him, there was good lighting, then the loss of leaves can be minimal.

Question: Is it really called deciduous? Or is it just a sedative explanation for the fall of foliage?

Miss Violet: There are a great many ficuses, in nature they can grow in different climatic conditions, among them there are deciduous and non-deciduous (as they are called). For example, the ficuses Ali and Viandi are deciduous, for them it is considered normal partial loss of leaves in the winter. Perhaps, in the conditions where they grow in nature, they dump the foliage completely. But the room conditions still differ from the natural ones, at least in that the winter temperature in the apartment is higher. Therefore, following the call of nature, if they drop leaves, then not completely, but partially. But if not deciduous ficus suddenly begins to shed leaves, then this indicates errors in care. There may also be a loss of leaves in the first weeks after purchase due to changing containment conditions. Ficus Benjamin, for example, has an insidious feature - if the plant underwent at least short-term cooling in winter (it was transferred not packed from the store to the car, and then from the car to the apartment), then it can remain normal for up to two months, and then begins to crumble, although it seems that all conditions of detention are met.

How to feed ficus

Question: What is better to feed ficuses?

Vitaly: You can KEMIRA-LUX or liquid organic fertilizer BIOUD based on fermented horse manure (pictured).

sweety: Fertilizer for ficus Pocon NPK 8 + 3 + 6 (2 times a month) Composition: Nitrogen N (1.4% nitrates, 0.9% ammonia, 4.7% urea) - 7%, Phosphoric acid (P205) soluble in water - 3%, potassium oxide (K2O) soluble in water - 5%. It also contains magnesia (Mg), boron (Br), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), molybdenum (Mo), and zinc (Zn).

Regenerator for leaves Pocon (2 times per month) Composition: Thief (Br) 0.2%, copper (Cu) 0.5%, iron (Fe) 0.3%, manganese (Mn) 0.5%, molybdenum (Mo) 0.02%, zinc (Zn) 0.5%, cobalt (Co) 0.02%.

Question: Can you please tell me the temperature limit at which I can keep Benjamin on a glazed but unheated loggia?

Vitaly: In summer, you can keep not only on the loggia, but in general outdoors (in the garden at the dacha, on the open terrace, etc.), but in winter it is not recommended to contain Ficus benjamin at temperatures below + 15 C. The vast majority of ficuses react poorly to drafts, and even more so to cold drafts.

Why ficus leaves curl

Question: Why do ficuses sometimes twist leaves?

Rainbow: My ficuses sometimes have leaves twisted lengthways. Associated with too intense ventilation (draft or sharp fresh air). I opened the door of the glazed balcony for ventilation. Explanation in a sharp drop in air humidity and temperature, from sharp fluctuations the plant does not have time to rebuild.

K.I.S.: Leaves in rubber ficuses can curl from a draft. For example, my friend, a big fan of ventilation, had a ficus next to the balcony. So all his leaves became twisted. There is also one on my ficus. She became more attentive to him, no longer appear.

natalyf: In my case, the draft is completely excluded. I suspect it's for lack of sun in the summer. This leaf was just growing when we had rains in June for 2 weeks. It seems that the temperature suits him, and the daylight hours are long, but there is no sun - so he twisted. I generally have all leaves of different sizes. And the more sun there was during growth, the larger the leaves.

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