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title: "My fiddle leaf has come quite a way🌱 First got him almost 03 years…"
description: "My fiddle leaf has come quite a way🌱 First got him almost 03 years ago. My plan for this one is to eventually reach a desired height where I will then chop it…"
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community: "Anything about plants"
author: "Lili"
published: "2023-12-18T01:03:34.371Z"
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# My fiddle leaf has come quite a way🌱 First got him almost 03 years…

_Posted by Lili on 2023-12-18_

My fiddle leaf has come quite a way🌱  
First got him almost 03 years ago.  
My plan for this one is to eventually reach a desired height where I will then chop it back to encourage branching.  
I been trimming bottom leaves to promote growth upwards (I personally like how they look as trees).

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## 2 comments

### Sam commented on 2023-12-18

What do you do for it? Mine dropped half of its leafs about 5 months ago and about 2 weeks ago i chopped it and its pushing out a little bit of growth. How do you get it to grow so much?

#### Lili replied on 2023-12-18

I just recently found the sweet spot for this plant, its worked my patience pretty well🙃  
A lot of my new growth for a while had edema on it \& much smaller in size. I’ve realized it likes to be pretty dry between waterings so I do it every 15 days. It sits in a chunky soil (all purpose soil+perlite+orchid bark+worm castings+charcoal). I also fertilize every watering/every other watering). It’s in an east window rn but I had it in a west window before this \& it was also doing fine (my apt doesn’t have a south window but I’ve read that’s “ideal”)

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