Rubber Tree Indoor Needs

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Rubber tree indoor needs.

While your rubber tree is in its growing season. It is native to malaysia. The rubber tree plant ficus elastica gets its name from its milky sap which was used to produce rubber in the early 1900s. These rubber plant care and growing tips will keep yours looking great.

After spending quite a few years in the interiorscaping biz i found the rubber plant to be the easiest of the ficus trifecta which includes the fiddleaf fig and ficus benjamina to maintain and keep alive. Instead use them to propagate a rubber tree plant. Rubber plants can grow up to 100 feet in their native homeland of southeast asia. Long palm like leaves sprout out in abundance around a center stalk and they can grow quite tall even indoors.

They re fast growers with the right light conditions and can last 15 years or more with proper care. As a domesticated houseplant rubber plants grow anywhere between six to ten feet tall you can grow outdoor rubber plants if you live in zone. Rubber tree plants you can grow indoors. During the growing season it needs to be kept moist.

Ficus elastica more commonly known as a rubber plant rubber tree or rubber tree plant is a popular houseplant because of its waxy leaves and larger than life appearance. Rubber tree plants can grow very tall and this means an indoor rubber tree occasionally needs to be pruned. Many people put their rubber trees near a window where the light is filtered through a pair of sheer curtains. Rubber trees do not require much light but flourish in bright indirect light.

The cutting should be about 6 inches 15 cm long and. The rubber tree plant also needs the right balance of water. After pruning don t throw out those cuttings. If you water the rubber tree plant too much the leaves will turn yellow and brown and fall off.

It is also a good idea to wipe off the leaves of your rubber tree houseplant with a damp cloth or spritz it with water. Rubber plants are a popular indoor house plant. If you re tired of coddling the notoriously fickle fiddle leaf fig or weary of picking up dropped leaves from your weeping fig every day try a rubber plant. Want an easy care indoor tree with large glossy leaves.

Propagating a rubber tree plant from cuttings starts with getting a good cutting. If the plant gets less light while leaves are growing the leaves will actually be larger. Rubber trees formally ficus elastica can be enjoyed as either medium sized house plants or grown to become focal point beautiful indoor trees if you re patient enough to grow your own plants that start out younger when you buy them adapt better to indoor living than starting with a more mature plant. It s been slightly pushed aside and i think now s the.

They re typically medium sized but if given time and space to grow can become the size of a small tree.