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Hello,
I need help finding out what I can do to prevent my plant from losing all it's leaves. I bought a rubber tree from a grocery store around January. I noticed new growth taking place and noticed a few leaves turning yellow. I re-potted and now the leaves are falling fast.
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Grrr! I have my lovely flats all flatted out, with soilless seed starting mix, my happy little grow lights, fresh seeds (some bought retail, some collected). But no blasted babies! UGH. The poppies have popped, and one other thing but I can't remember now. But the coleus and lavender can't seem to raise themselves from the dirt. It's been a month. All told, only two flats out of 9 has done anything.
Suggestions?
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Hi All, Im trying to figure out why all of a sudden my leaves are turning brown on my Mass Cane. Ive had it in the same place in my house for over a year now and it was doing fine and growing beautifully. I noticed a few days ago that the leaves are turning brown. Can someone please tell me what Im doing wrong? This plant was given to me as a sympathy gift for my grandmother's passing so it really does mean alot to me and I absolutely love it. I brought it outside today and was thinking that maybe it needs to be repotted but Im not so sure. If anyone could please help, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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My dracaena finally got outside with some warm weather, and by the end of the day, the lower leaves were drooping.
Same thing happened one warm day about 3 weeks ago, and in a day or two, the leaves were back to normal, no damage.
Yesterday, I had it out in sun, they drooped. I put it out today, in the shade, and they're still drooping.
I've seen sunburn in plants many times, but never manifested as drooping leaves; rather burned spots.
Anybody seen this before?
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I was looking for an nature friendly product to kill slugs and snails (kind of an oxymoron huh?). Most of the organic products seem marginal at best. The baits attract the slugs, but take a few days to kill them; meanwhile they are laying 20 to 100 eggs a day - nice legacy huh?.
I want an organic product. I found this one product doing a web search. It popped up at http://www.snail-n-slugaway.com. I see their product advertised on their website, but I don't see a way to purchase it from a retailer or on-line. It looks pretty promising, but I can't seem to find someone who actually is selling it or knows much about it. It looks like it could be an organic way to effectively deal with snails and slugs; it says its and an ovicide too. That is quite appealing to me. So my question is, do you know anything about this product, is it a product that you would carry. I would really like to test it out, but I can't find any place to buy it. Any help you could give me with this would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
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Hello
I am planting my first large scale garden. I am trying to layout the garden on paper and plot the orientation and position for maximum sunlight. The only problem is i just moved into this house this winter and havent seen the suns travel path during the summer. Is there a way that I can use a compass and my latitude on the earth to plot the suns travel for a given date? i need to know pretty precisely, not just east/west because I have three rather large trees that I think will have to removed and thats gonna be pricey.
thanks in advance
JC
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I did a little experiment this year to see the best way to germinate and start my garden veggies.
I took one batch of 8 squash and 8 green beens, 8 tomatoes, etc.
One batch I soaked for 48 hours in a folded napkin and wet the napkin then drained most of the water.
Once the seeds popped, I put them in prepared peat pellets.
every one of these came up within 3 days (so 5 total).
The others I put straight into prepared jiffy peat pellots and watered and kept the peat moist.
These took 10 days and some took up to 14.
the other trick is you must keep your seedbeds warm. 68-72f. Im sure in this forum there are some places they talk about germination more.
Just wanted to add a real world take.
PS_ I did this in february and havent put out the stuff into the garden yet.
I am restarting more greenbeans because the first ones took off so fast, the cat decided to eat the leaves off of about 1/2 of them.
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I think these plants are cursed for me...LOL 
I water it when its bone dry...maybe every 2 weeks.
I saw 2 leaves turning yellow... 
Does this mean im watering too much or too little?
My plant tag says not to let it dry out...
Please HELP!!!!! 
Greg 
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So I found one more plant sitting on a window sill in the radiology department of my hospital. I think it looks like a Begonia species but i am not 100% sure because it's growing like a vine. I don't think you can see this on the pics but the leaves have very fine thorns giving it a fussy appearance on the bottom of the leaf and the stems almost look transparent. They have two of these plants one with red flowers one with yellow. I just took these pics yesterday.
If it is a Begonia any tips on propagation? I know Begonias are tubers and thus cuttings won't sprout roots is that correct? I heard about taking a healthy leaf and pinning it down on moist soil and cutting a few of the veins to propagate, are there any other ways?
As always thank you very much for helping me out, you guys are awesome!
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Photos in my Picture library.
Dont know where to direct this question.
The phoot library on my computer where I store the photos i take.
2 of these for some odd reason, i cannot print or email.
When I do , the top an bottom come togethr an the photo disappears>
They are photos I had taken with my own camera.
I have seen that a few years ago, but dont know why?
Thanks James or anyone who can answer that.
dodge
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Is it just me or do other people have trouble with their ivy plants in winter? It seems by the time March rolls around I have to cut them back to start over...they lose their leaves in a matter of a week or so.
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I saved some pods from the R of S down at the end of the drive - the owner of the house has often encouraged me to take cuttings and dig out the little plants that grow under it.
By the time I got around to it, it was too late - the seedlings had gone back into the earth, so I just settled for grabbing some pods.
I put some in soil around Christmas time, and kept them under the fluorescent lamp . . . there's little wee seedlings in their pots!
I'm curious to see how far they're gonna' go.
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 I got poofed for being a low life spammer! 
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It has been unseasonably cold here for months. This time last year my daffodils and crocuses were starting to bloom. This year they are just barely halfway up. I usually have peonies coming up as well, and many perennials starting to wake up...but not much of anything going on yet. I suppose that's not really a bad thing. I usually also get late freezes that kill or damage plants, so maybe if it stays cold for a while longer my plants will be slower to come up and the risk of damage will be less. (I'm realling trying!) I have so much to do in the garden as far as clean up and prep work, but it's too dang cold! Yeah, I know I won't get much sympathy from those of you in the north who deal with the cold all the time. :-(
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THIS WAS MY MYRTLE 5 MONTHS AGO ..sorry its blurry (the hat was only on for the picture)
THIS IS MY MYRTLE NOW.
Everytime someone touches him, leaves fall off...I've had him about 7 months and since then ive lost his instructions tag. I remember it said though that he didnt need a lot of sun or water. I've tried everything though. Less water, more water..more sun, less sun..spraying his leaves with water...I love him, HELP HIM!
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James, my desktop is acting possessed! 
It is a Dell, brought newly refurbished last summer. It has worked great until this week. Then it started turning itself off and back on again. Sometimes six or seven times in a row before shuttng down completely. When I try to turn it on, it will only go to a sort of standby mode. If I leave it like that, it will start up several hours later, run well, and then suddenly shut off again. Then last night when I tried again to start it, I heard a sound of a broken fan, so I shut it down immediately.
I ran all the scans and nothing turned up.
I've been unable to reach our local guru -- he may be in CA on vacation. So, any insights or suggestions would be most welcome. Right now I am using my son's school laptop which is a macbook and vry unfamiliar!
Thanks!
Merme
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