Yellow viens on ficus cuttings in mesh pot
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Wires_Guy_wires
Imperial Masterpiece
Could be bacterial, could be fungal, and it could very well be the fact that they've had their entire bodies removed below them.
It's always a crap shoot when cuttings do things; it can either be natural, and figs can and will drop their leaves and go dormant if they're in distress.. But it could also be caused by a variety of things like a lack of sunlight and daily watering without proper desiccation.
I've grown edible figs in water, and they tended to drop all foliage before growing roots and leafing out again. But they were in full sunlight.
Dig them up, see if there's any callus forming or if the bottoms have gone mushy. If the latter is the case, toss them because they will just continue to rot.
Also check for rolly pollies or whatever wood lice are called in Texas, they love eating damaged fig bark. My last edible fig was frozen to death this winter, and the wood lice burrowed underneath the bark before it even looked dead.
It's always a crap shoot when cuttings do things; it can either be natural, and figs can and will drop their leaves and go dormant if they're in distress.. But it could also be caused by a variety of things like a lack of sunlight and daily watering without proper desiccation.
I've grown edible figs in water, and they tended to drop all foliage before growing roots and leafing out again. But they were in full sunlight.
Dig them up, see if there's any callus forming or if the bottoms have gone mushy. If the latter is the case, toss them because they will just continue to rot.
Also check for rolly pollies or whatever wood lice are called in Texas, they love eating damaged fig bark. My last edible fig was frozen to death this winter, and the wood lice burrowed underneath the bark before it even looked dead.
memehongkong
Sapling
@Sagebrush when you plant them into the pot, do they have roots already? I put my fig cuttings into sphagnum they seems to grow better.
Sagebrush
Mame
Yes, they had roots after being in water. Since the original post I uppotted the whole mesh basket into a larger pot with potting soil. Put in early morning direct sun and it seems to be improving. The other smaller one in mesh pot hasn't had the same issues?
