booter@lll-crg.ARpA (Elaine Richards) (11/24/85)
****REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR VEGETATION**** Hi there. I have some sickly houseplants and would love a little advice from you green thumb types. Ficus Benjamina. Not growing fast despite monstrous pot. Leaves are getting a gray film and fall off young. Tree looks semi-bare and I am contemplating getting a rake for the bedroom. Not too many yellow leaves. Ferns, probably Boston. Small thin fronds instead of fat ones. There are TONS of fiddlers, but they dont really get very large. The spider plant is being eaten by the cat, so I suppose that is a job for net.pets. Any advice on these and the following plants would be appreciated. Sword plant, spider plant, grapevine ivy, wandering Jew (wandered out so far from the roots, its all brown stringys with plantoids on ends), Philodendon and this thing that looks like a corn plant. Sun water, I think are issues. I dont subscribe to net.garden because (ta da) I have no garden! Please mail me the advice etc via email. If you want to discuss it openly I don't mind, but do send me copies. E *****