I heard that it's hard to overwater a fig, and yet that's what I managed to do. It was rather difficult to miss this fact as a thick layer of water lied uneventfully on top of the soil. I tilted the pot over the sink so all the free water could escape.
That was a week ago. The fig had been fine during the first few days after that; however when I looked again this evening, most of the lower leaves had turned yellow and seemed like they would fall off any moment.
Additionally, there is a pot of flower that I usually tend to after the fig. After the overwatering accident from last week, I have been a lot more cautious about giving water to the plants, and thus this flower pot had received less water than usual. This evening, however, I noticed that most of the flowers had withered and fell off and only leaves remained. The soil felt dry, so I gave it about a glass of water (it's a big pot). But now I'm really puzzled. Did I underwater the flower? Or did I actually overwater it, but the water is just hiding deep underneath the soil and I couldn't feel it --- in which case I just aggravated the situation?
Caring for plants is hard, as I just discovered. My plants being unhealthy makes me really sad, and I think if the situation with the fig doesn't improve, I'll have to repot it. I've been putting off doing that because 1) it looked healthy and 2) I don't know how to do it. But, as it turned out, my plant isn't actually healthy, and saving it is a lot more important.
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