Ficus Cristina

What Makes it Unique?

• They are often used as ornamental or hedging plants to enhance your indoor spaces.
• Occasionally blooms in summers with white or pink flowers.
• Easy to grow and low-maintenance plants widely popular for their beautiful foliage and flowers.

How to Care?

• It is best to keep them in a shady corner with ample sunlight as it prefers being in bright indirect sunlight.
• Choose a pot larger than the current pot and be extra careful while repotting to save from damaging of leaves.
• Make sure to choose a balanced liquid organic fertilizer to cure any signs of natural deficiencies in the plant.
• They can easily tolerate being in the shade, but the growth speed hampers in case of a low light supply.
• They are used as ornamental plants to enhance your hedges with red and orange foliage leaves.
• Do not require much watering, but underwatering may also lead to leaves curling or yellowing.
• The leaves may also start turning brown and eventually fall off in case receiving insufficient water.
• Keep it in a bright indirect light corner, and don’t move them frequently to keep it thriving.
• It can easily thrive in moist to well-drained soil, but always choose a pot with drainage soil.
• Wait for at least 3-5 days before repotting your Ficus Cristina, as it needs some time to overcome travel shocks.
• Needs repotting after a year only, and choose a bigger size than required to keep them thriving.
• Make sure to protect them from heavy frost and arid climate by keeping them indoors or covering them from direct contact.
• Regularly prune your Ficus plants if it starts getting de-shaped or overshadows the other nearby plants.