Hi, I received this plant as a gift in January 2020, but I don't have any experience with plants at all so I'm not sure how to take care of them. I believe its a fiddle leaf fig and I've tried to research how to take care of it but it seems to be getting worse. I've added photos below, so I'm just going to state as much information I can.
The issues I see on my plant is that it has developed a lot of small brown spots on the bottom of the leaves, and one which has a tip that has cracked (?). I also have a leaf that seems to have developed some lighter dry patches, just yesterday it was a small patch, but now it has spread significantly on the top of the leaf. The difference between today and yesterday was that I sprayed some water on the leaves, I'm not sure if that was what caused it to spread. I notice the lower leaves in general are always crusty and eventually just fall off, it used to have like 5 smaller leaves at the bottom.
I water it roughly once a week and have it near a window. I used to place it directly in front of my window which had a lot of sun and heat during the day, but I read online that it doesn't like direct sunlight so then I moved it to the side where theres still some light but the heat isn't going to hit it too much. It used to be in a plastic container that was placed inside the pot but I eventually removed it and placed the plant back into the pot and filled in the gaps with some new soil around 2 weeks ago.
I gave it a lot more water when it still had the plastic pot in it, from what I read online which was to pour enough water till it comes through the bottom. But now I've been scared to overwater it, because while my pot has a hole for water to go through, the 'tray' it's on can't be detached, so a lot of the water would not be able to escape even though some water makes it onto the tray. I think I've given it like half a cup of water per week since the move, but the soil is still wet so I don't know what to do.
I've done research on how to take care of this plant, but I can't tell what's going wrong. This is my first plant, how can I fix it's issues? Thanks.
My plant when I first got it: