Rant: I picked a ficus over a monstera for my dark apartment and it's dying

My north facing living room only gets like 2 hours of weak light a day, so I chose a ficus lyrata thinking it'd handle low light better than a monstera. After 3 months of droopy leaves and spider mites, I finally swapped it for a monstera that's thriving with just a cheap grow light from Amazon. Anyone else regret trusting those 'low light' labels on plants?

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julia_miller249d ago

The ficus lyrata actually needs pretty bright indirect light, not low light at all. I mean, those tags at the store can be super misleading about what plants actually need. Droopy leaves and spider mites usually mean the plant was stressed from too little light from the start.

jennys729d ago

lol I learned that one the hard way too, RIP my poor fiddle leaf.