If your plant s not producing new leaves don t feed at all.
Rubber leaf plant tall.
If you go hotter the leaves will lose some of their turgid appearance.
The rubber plant will be quite happy to grow in a broad range of temperatures between 10 c 50 f to 29 c 85 f.
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.
I ve found that both of these plants do best in higher light conditions and are.
They re fast growers with the right light conditions and can last 15 years or more with proper care.
When this plant is about 1 2ft tall it s well suited sitting as a centrepiece on a table on a shelf or on a windowsill but once it begins to grow above 3ft it looks great standing next to a fireplace television area.
But indoors a rubber tree typically tops out at 6 to 10 feet tall.
With careful pruning you can shape your rubber tree to be exactly as tall as you want.
The rubber tree plant botanical name is ficus elastica is a hardy houseplant that is very easy to care for the plant also has names such as indian rubber tree rubber fig and indian rubber bush.
One way this happens is that a rubber tree owner will fertilize the plant too often and this causes a rubber plant to lose leaves.
As with usual feeding rules don t fertilise in winter or recently repotted and new plants for a good 3 to 6 months.
Fiddle leaf fig is a great indoor plant for rooms and offices alike.
Its thick glossy leathery green leaves and fast tall growth mean that rubber plants add to the aesthetics of any room.
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.
Having large light green leaves with a slender waxy and dark foliage it creates quite a bold statement and pairs well with the surroundings.
Burgundy rubber plant ficus elastica burgundy a man made cultivar develops large leaves 8 to 12 inches long and 4 inches wide with a burgundy tint and a red midrib.
The rubber plant is all about having a small tree indoors with broad shiny attractive leaves.
Don t worry though as a houseplant rubber plants usually get to around 8 10.
They need very little feeding.
The rubber plant is also known as ficus elastica and rubber tree.
Rubber tree plants only need to be fertilized once in awhile.
Over fertilization rubber tree plants are frequently killed with kindness from their owners.
The ficus benjamina or weeping fig drops leaves like it s fall every day.
Rubber plants can grow up to 100 feet in their native homeland of southeast asia.
How it looks and displaying.
