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title: "Advice for my rubber plant! I have this cute little ficus elastica…"
description: "Advice for my rubber plant! I have this cute little ficus elastica (rubber plant) She was in bad shape and not producing any new leafs so I tried notching her…"
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community: "Anything about plants"
author: "Sophie92"
published: "2024-04-14T10:14:03.856175Z"
language: "en"
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# Advice for my rubber plant! I have this cute little ficus elastica…

_Posted by Sophie92 on 2024-04-14_

Advice for my rubber plant!

I have this cute little ficus elastica (rubber plant)  
She was in bad shape and not producing any new leafs so I tried notching her to see if this helped and moving her up a pot size.

She's finally starting to have new growth but in not sure if I've done too much damage to the stem...do I need to start over and propergate her? Or is this a trust the process type of thing 🙈

Her first new leaf came out damaged, the second great but it had a new leaf pretty much trapped inside stopping it from fully opening. I had to cut that and it is re growing. But I do t know if I've damaged it too much at the stem 😅

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![Attachment 3 of 5](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/zPVOHjV4lrtFHw6Sjg-gCqJi9ia39SLOSVOUSGFwnOQ/KYD2rcGbRZu6uLhVbLH39g.webp?size=large)

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## 2 comments

### Amy commented on 2024-04-14

This is a beautiful plant! The leaves are gorgeous! I don’t know much but the fact it’s putting out new leaves seems promising

### Mossy-paws commented on 2024-04-15

Wow beautiful! You could try keeping it near a humidifier or using a plant mistrer if you’re not already

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