Like Bill said, re-evaluate your watering regime. Majority of ficus are very definite when it comes to the water they can tolerate and thus the leaf problem. Do you let it dry out in between watering?
Like Bill said, re-evaluate your watering regime. Majority of ficus are very definite when it comes to the water they can tolerate and thus the leaf problem. Do you let it dry out in between watering?
The 2in pots are filled with ABG soil and dressed with long fiber sphagnum as a thin top layer. The pots have drainage holes in the foam leading to the outside of the background so excess water can drip down the background wall if over watered. Fertilizer is limited due to frogs so its pretty much whatever organic mater is in the ABG/ insect and frog droppings/ springtails and such that crawl into the soil and die.
Before getting the frogs I put a dead cricket on the top to decay and fert. The plant on the right pot fills the pot while the left pot is just a thin stem or two. I'd say it dried out alright being so high on the wall and close to the lights.
I still mostly feel as though its the lights killing off the chlorophyl in the leaves. Some of the leaves that are a bit more shaded by other areas of the plant stay green. Should I remove them and plant them on the floor? This way theyd have plent of root space and be further from the lights. I have no problem doing this, but I dont want two bare net pots just filled with soil in the top middle of the wall. Any suggestions as to what I could replace them with? Like a hanging type plant or a plant that will dangle/ hang tendrils down from the wall?
This is my first terrarium btw
I'm happy with it for the most part. My only regrets are the pond in the back right (cant quite see it in the image), using so many types of plants instead of using a few plants in higher quantity for a more natural look, and those damn vines lol!
Oh! Also, the entire back ground was first coated with a mix of organic, fine black compost and wood glue and THEN a layer of cocofiber mixed with the wood glue. I used the compost so that over time through run off the compost might release nutrients to the plants. The larger vine on the right actually threw out a root that has traveled all across the wall
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