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Novice plant guy needs help... #81952 July 7th, 2005 at 06:39 AM
Joined: Jul 2005 Glenside, PA A acetate3 OP Junior Member
OP acetate3 Junior Member A Joined: Jul 2005 Glenside, PA	Hello everyone, I just bought this plant: http://www.flickr.com/photos/32234030@N00/24137696/ All I know is that it is tropical. I think. It would be amazing if anyone could ID it so I can figure out how to best take care of it. I appreciate your help! Simon

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Re: Novice plant guy needs help... #81953 July 7th, 2005 at 06:54 AM
Joined: May 2005 z6 S. Illinois MaryReboakly Member
MaryReboakly Member Joined: May 2005 z6 S. Illinois	Hi Simon! Welcome to the forum I do believe this is a rubber plant. Here's a link with some tips for caring for one. Good luck with it!

Re: Novice plant guy needs help... #81954 July 7th, 2005 at 07:19 AM
Joined: Apr 2003 N.Y. weezie13 Compost Queen!
weezie13 Compost Queen! Joined: Apr 2003 N.Y.	Here's a couple more info sheets for Bill's main pages' of The Garden Helper.... Care and Cultivation of Rubber plants/Ficus elastica Pruning an Overgrown Rubber plant/Ficus elastica Staking Top Heavy House Plants And if you do a FORUM SEARCH and type in RUBBER tree you'll end up with a bunch of posts/threads on there too!!!!

Re: Novice plant guy needs help... #81955 July 7th, 2005 at 08:22 AM
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OP acetate3 Junior Member A Joined: Jul 2005 Glenside, PA	Wow! Thanks for the quick responses. The info you guys have provided is fantastic. I'm looking forward to participating in this community... surely I'll have more questions soon. Thanks again! Simon

Re: Novice plant guy needs help... #81956 July 7th, 2005 at 10:22 AM
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weezie13 Compost Queen! Joined: Apr 2003 N.Y.	Somebodies always sittin' on their ole puter around here, at pretty much any given time of the day and night around here.. We just can't stay away from the place...

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