How to Make Your Rubber Plant More Bushy

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Today I want to talk about the Rubber Plant or Ficus Elastica, a plant that can be easy to grow but can have some issues. Mainy the fact that it tends to grow straight up and then start to lean towards the sunlight at which point it tends to fall over! To make your Rubber Plant into something more attractive and practiicle to grow you can chop them back to encourage more side shoots and then crceate a more bushy looking lant that is more compact and less likely to over balance and lean to one side.

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@patsy1746 3 ай бұрын

Thank you Andy very informative i followed your vidio on Tradescatia and i now have a loveley plant thankyou👍

@HouseplantHacks 3 ай бұрын

Thats great to hear Patsy! So glad your Tradescantia is doing well. :-)

@soberplantguy 3 ай бұрын

Love your channel, and am so envious of your potting shed!

@HouseplantHacks 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! :-)

@susaneastman4867 3 ай бұрын

Im doing an air layering on mine right now. Its grown straight upwards and is 8 ft. Enjoy your video, thank you.

@HouseplantHacks 3 ай бұрын

Wow that's a big one! Good luck with it.

@umarhussain3870 3 ай бұрын

I only reason i watch this channel.. purely because hes so dam cute lol xxx

@soberplantguy 3 ай бұрын

It's true 🤣 I don't even *like* these plants...!

@_RandomPea 3 ай бұрын

Hello mate, ours has a ridiculous lean, seems to lean more away from the sun light though must be a bit of a slow learner at plant school 😂

@HouseplantHacks 3 ай бұрын

Ha! Yes they do like a lean! A quarter turn every week helps to keep them straight but I never remember to do it!

@stephaniehirst2600 3 ай бұрын

I couldnt see the growth on the bottom of the plant are they getting extra growth off the plant or like mine its grown 2 new stems from under the soil, if so do i like you say cut the very top bit off and that will make the stems at the bottom grow better.Sorry for seeming a bit thick but i just wanted to clarify before i start to hack away at it.

@HouseplantHacks 2 ай бұрын

It's not thick, a perfectly good question Stephanie. Yes, if the shoots are coming from the base even if they are from under the soil when you take off the growing tip it will send energy to the shoots further down the plant.

@stephaniehirst2600 2 ай бұрын

Brilliant thanks for clarifying that so I now know what I'm doing thanks very much again.Iv looked all over and your the first person who has mentioned that you can get extra branches growing from the rubber plant. I was starting to think I'd bought a weird plant as everything else is about cutting them at the top to get them to branch out nothing on how to get branches that appear at the bottom and how to deal with them.