These diseases affect the weeping fig

Illnesses as a result of care errors - clues and triggers

In most cases, apparent symptoms of the disease cannot be traced back to pathogenic agents such as bacteria, viruses or fungal spores. Rather, your weeping fig reacts to mistakes in care, as the following overview shows.

Shedding of green leaves

• Abrupt temperature changes
• Change of location with changed lighting conditions
• Cold draft, drafts on the open window
• Dry heating air

Yellow leaves

• Waterlogging
• Ball dryness
• Lack of light
• Hard irrigation water

Please avoid a change of location if it is not unavoidable. In order for the weeping fig to stay healthy, the temperatures must not drop below 16 degrees Celsius. During the wintering spray the leaves regularly with soft water. Please follow a watering schedule that guarantees a substrate of variable moisture, without wet feet or parched earth. The use of lime-free water is the top priority for a gardener when it comes to caring for a weeping fig.

Diseases Resulting from Infection - Signs and Causes

The weeping fig is not always immune to infections despite the best care. We have compiled frequently occurring diseases in indoor culture for you here:

• Yellow spots of 3 mm converge successively: Leaf spot disease (Septoria)
• Green spots on the underside of the leaf, corky adhesions on the upper side: bacterial cancer
• Root rot: Verticillium wilt and other fungal pathogens
• White coating on the top and bottom of the foliage: powdery mildew

Classic home remedies against pathogens are mostly ineffective as a control strategy. Various fungicides are available for use in private ornamental gardens, such as Duaxo Universal Mushroom-free from Compo or Fungisan from Neudorff. So that a disease does not spread to other plants in living rooms or on the balcony, the weeping fig should be quarantined during treatment.