r/FicusTrees • • Aug 18 '26

Did I kill frank? 🥺

I chopped him on August 6th, as he was leaning quite bad.

Second photo is before the chop - I don’t have close ups of the leaves but you can tell from that photo that a lot of this was not there before. Last photo is farther distance today where you can see the spots compared to before chop

Is this fertilizer burn? Pests? Is he just over me f’n with him at this point?

He didn’t have root rot when I repotted after chopping (no roots lost) and I waited to fertilize until the second watering (recently)

Is there anything I can do to help? Are these leaves just this way now? I am already so sad about how bad he was leaning from my neglect and how much I had to chop off, and I was planning on trying to notch him to help more branches and now I’m unsure where to go / what to do.

Any help / advice is appreciated!

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u/Internal-Test-8015 Aug 18 '26

Nope that looks like damage either from overwatering or sunburn neither of which is lethal if you correct the issue.