houseplant gone mad
By Mark61
23 Jan, 2011
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do not know what its called,had this hoseplant for about ten years.We want to change our decor but it seems a shame to move it as it as grown around our light.To be continued.....:)))))))
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yes but it was only a baby when we bought it lol , the dead yellow leave as now gone,, lol x
one more thing please oh grayish one lol do you know the name :))
25 Jan, 2011
sorry I don't, will see if I can find out
26 Jan, 2011
I think it looks like a rubber tree plant. Ficus elastica. We had one years ago but it threatened to take over the house so we let it go to a local hotel. We were unaware that you can successfully prune them.
29 Jan, 2011
Hi thanks yorkshire and scotsgran.At least i know what it is now.Thanks again :))))
6 Feb, 2011
it looks like a rubber plant to me. I had one that went rather berserk: I didn't know that if a leaf is knocked off, unless the stem is sealed, it'll grow another branch.
Eventually I had a plant that was more like a tree, it had so many offshoots. Probably just as well, as it was over five feet tall by then; if it had put all that growing into a single stem I'd have had to cut a hole in the ceiling and share it wiht the people upstairs!
I'm not sure what the broken-off leaf wound should be sealed with; someone told me cigarette ash, someone else said Vaseline.
And the leaves will need to be cleaned now and then: Baby Bio sell "leafshine", but I've read that milk will do the job just as well. I had so many leaves towards the end that I sprayed them with a mister and then used a 1" paintbrush dipped in milk to get as many done as I could reach.
23 Feb, 2012
Mark it is rather big for that pot,
23 Jan, 2011