My neighbor in Boise bet me $20 that my fiddle leaf fig would drop leaves if I moved it twice in a month, and she won

Vera Reed · 2026-10-19T21:05:05.446466+00:00

I got a new fiddle leaf fig in March and rearranged my living room twice in three weeks, once to fit a new bookshelf and once because my cat kept knocking it over. My neighbor Dana, who has like 30 plants in her sunroom, said flat out that moving a fiddle leaf more than once a month is asking for trouble. I figured she was being dramatic, but by week four I had four yellow leaves on the floor and one bare branch. Now I let it sit in the same corner by the west window for 6 weeks straight and it's pushing out two new leaves. Has anyone else had a plant throw a fit over being moved, or is my fig just extra dramatic?

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