Hey guys, need your help!
Got an anonymus fig tree here, single stem, 6 feet high, 4 feet wide crown.
Potted in standard gardeners soil (mostly turf, I guess no perlite, sand or anything similar), Pot maybe 40 liters (12 gallons) black plastic. Protected from too much sunlight.
Had some 120 small small to medium breba figs and not too many but still green leaves (1 leave for every two fruits I'd estimate) when I bought it out of a greenhouse.
Just few days after buying and placing it in our really warm to hot patio first leaves started to turn yellow partially, sometimes even red or brown on the upper side.
After some days in this state they fall off, sometimes still being partially lite green others yet brown necrotic in parts.
The tree isn't growing almost no new leaves, the tips stay closed, even after increasing regular amount of fertilizer (2:1:1+Mg)
Now almost no leaves are left, some 20-30 of the small fruits have fallen of being dry inside. On the other side some of the fruits have doubled their size in the last 3 days and seems to start ripening.
I wonder if they can create enough carbohydrates /sugar do do this without leaves.
What do you think:
Can this be rust?
Drought? (very uncertain, watering regularly until water comes out of the holes)
Wet roots?
Nutrition lack or overdose?
Lack of Potassium?
Excesisve fruit?
Ah, one thing more: the tree always had the most corded young fruits I have ever seen. Genetics or a sign of water shortage?
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