Post by Carolyn on Apr 11, 2003 10:48:52 GMT -5
Okay, I KNOW how temperamental these plants can be, positively shedding their leaves if you look at them wrong. However, my husband had this one ficus for nearly 20 years and the man we rented our apartment to didn't quite kill it, but my god, it looks pitiful. Out of three intertwined stems, we have one where there's still life hanging on, and after cutting away all the dead, dry branches, there are five where the poor dear is trying it's very best to survive.
Funnily enough, in the short time that we've been back home, it's almost as though it realizes that "Daddy's home", because it's putting out new leaves, but it looks so naked with most of the branches gone and all the leaves dead on the lower parts of the branches near the stem.
So tell me, how does one propagate a ficus? Do you take cuttings of leaves and put them in water to root, is it a dry rooting proposition? Is it by root division? I really want to save this tree for my husband.
The rest are pretty much lost, the two aloes that were older than my husband's kids, all of the geraniums, but they're cheap at the market, my pothos was looking pretty bad too, but it's recovering. You nearly have to put gasoline on those and set them on fire to kill them. One violet amazingly survived as well.
Any suggestions on saving this ficus?
Funnily enough, in the short time that we've been back home, it's almost as though it realizes that "Daddy's home", because it's putting out new leaves, but it looks so naked with most of the branches gone and all the leaves dead on the lower parts of the branches near the stem.
So tell me, how does one propagate a ficus? Do you take cuttings of leaves and put them in water to root, is it a dry rooting proposition? Is it by root division? I really want to save this tree for my husband.
The rest are pretty much lost, the two aloes that were older than my husband's kids, all of the geraniums, but they're cheap at the market, my pothos was looking pretty bad too, but it's recovering. You nearly have to put gasoline on those and set them on fire to kill them. One violet amazingly survived as well.
Any suggestions on saving this ficus?
... but this is what I found so far on the net !!!