Ultrasound exam. At a mid-pregnancy ultrasound, usually done between 16 and 20 weeks, your baby will be carefully examined. Quad screen (second-trimester prenatal screening). Find out what the multiple marker screening test can tell you.
During the winter months, when light weakens, you may need to move your ficus to a stronger light. Be aware that, because the ficus is sensitive to change, it may drop leaves when you first move it, but it will recover in thirty to sixty days.
Green Thumb Tip. Ficus elastica will grow to 40 ft (12 m) in its native habitat, but will stay much shorter when grown indoors in a container. Rubber plant will also bear fruit when it is 30 years old -- outdoors, not in.