Looking online I’ve seen it could be edema or sunburn. They have been rained on a lot already and it’s been sunny (weird weather this week), so I don’t know which to suspect. None of the pictures I saw online were this vibrant of a red color. Definitely affecting the fig more than the birds of paradise, as you can see. Any ideas and will they be fine?
by michael_is_not_here
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Sunburn. That FLF is in danger.
You need to “harden off” plants that you had inside when you bring them outside.
Meaning only letting them get a little sun at a time and slowly increase the time left out until it can handle the sun
Figs love sun, but looks like this one needed to acclimate a bit first! Next time start in a shady spot with filtered light and gradually give it more sun
Oh no! I’m so sorry to see this.
Fiddle leaf fig trees are very sensitive to changes in light! You want to acclimate them slowly to changes in light, and even then, you will notice changes in color.
Judging by the color of the non-burnt leaves, it looks like you had them indoors previously?
What I have done with mine when i want to move them outdoors is to move them closer to a window (mine are UV protected) every 2 weeks to get them used to more light. Make sure that eventually they are getting full Sun through the window. Then, when you think they’re ready to move outside, move them to a shady spot or to filtered light first, and let them get used to that for awhile. Finally, move them to their final home. Mine seem to prefer filtered outdoor light (I’m in the southwestern US) because it gets very hot and dry here. However I’ve seen fiddle leafs thrive in full Sun too. It’s all about acclimating them slowly!!
Finally, the best time to do this is in the early springtime (at least where I live. Usually no frost here). Doing this in the heat may have been too much stress for the fiddle leaf.
Best of luck!!
P.S: they should be fine if you move them to a bit less light and let them recover. However, they may likely lose some of those burnt leaves. They can be fickle plants, but I’ve also seen them bounce back from near death!
That poor fig is burned, like my pale ass on the beach
Bring them back in, they need slow accumulation
Forgot to apply sunscreen.
Thats brown ,not red. They’re being sunburned to death. You cant just move indoor plants outside in full unprotected sunlight.
Those leaves are going to dry up and die. You have two options, let them naturally die and fall off in their own time to prevent infection or cut it below the worse affected leaves and it will grow a new branch.
They’re burning from the sun… not turning red.
I do this every year and cry every year. I just lost several leaves off off a monstera recently because I jumped the gun on too much sun. Unfortunately you will likely lose the affected leaves 😭
It will most likely drop those burnt leaves, but hopefully if you keep acclimating the rest of it the increased light should encourage new growth that comes out adapted to the outdoor sun. If you get more than a foot of branch without leaves I would chop and prop.
Bring that baby inside
While both indeed can grow in full sun, you can’t throw them from inside to outside instantly, you gonna acclimate them, which can take a week or more
You sunburned it. Inside leaves cannot go directly out into the sun. They don’t have the tolerance for direct uv after being inside.
Your plant did not deserve this abuse. 🤕
https://i.redd.it/szsh1afqfy5f1.gif
My guess is sunburn, they can handle that much light but the suden change when you put them outside was probably too much.
Sunburrrrn
“Turning red” hunny, that would be sunburn.
Did you gradually harden them off or just immediately move them from the comforts of indoors to the harshness of outdoors?
It’s getting sunburnt!! Bring it in!!
Could be burn. But I had one of my baby figs lose two leaves from being in a bad pot. They turned red from absorbing to much water and the cells literally explode from within causing the red effect. There may be sitting water after all that rain.
Too much too fast. Putting them back inside will be more harmful than keeping them full sun now. What you should do is find a shady place outside for a month and then you can adjust how much light it’s getting
That’s sunburn
Nooooooooooo
Oops.
Damnnn, thank God I’ve already grieved my fiddle smh 😫
They’ve got sunburn! Going from 24/7 inside to 24/7 outside will be too much for a lot of plants, gotta acclimate them more slowly.
You just put them out there too quickly! They are getting sunburn. They need to build a base tank first lol. I live in AZ and have sun urn issues and lot… sunshades work great.
“Turning red” aka scorching their leaves.
Same thing that would happen to you if we plopped you ass outside all day You burned them. All those leaves need to be cut off they will not come back.
You have to harden them off.
For the life of me I’ll never understand why so many people see multiple correct, well thought out answers that are over an hour old to posts like these and still feel the need to comment “IT’S SUNBURN.” Like okay, it’s not real til everyone says it, apparently.
Definitely sunburn. Affected leaves will likely crisp up fully and die. Nothing you can do to return those leaves to health. Next year, ease plants into their outside summer vacation and sun exposure – a hour or two in the morning sun at first then daily extending time in the sun. Sunburn will be minimal or non-existent.
They got burnt
They getting sunburnt
they are burning alive friend. plants need to be acclimated gradually, like across a couple weeks, to significant light increases
They’re not turning red. They’re dying. You just cooked them to death.
Sun burn. You need to do it slowly. I put mine in the shade for a week or two first and then more sun. I got some sunburn from a particularly clear sunny day early on still. Those leaves will fall off and be replaced by new ones that are used to that amount of sun. The trick is keeping enough leaves on it to survive. I wouldn’t fret too much though i chopped mine completely in half leaving only 2 leaves a couple years ago and it grew a great mass of them back again by end of summer.
They b burnin not concernin what nobody oughta say
I made this exact same mistake with my first FLF. Completely crispy fried all the upper leaves. I cut it back, down to healthy leaves, and it 100% recovered and is now 6’+ tall. It happens, so don’t feel bad!
I love that I saw this on the circlejerk first. I forget they come from real posts
They’re burning. They can’t be in direct sunlight. They need bright indirect sunlight. Every part that turns this brown (reddish brown in this case) will turn crunchy and lifeless.
That plant is CRISP
Must have forgotten the sunscreen.
Whats hilarious is the shadows in the pic delineating where the leaf changes from green to brown
Crispy fig is back on the menu