Rubber Plant Growing Too Tall

If you re new to plant parenting a rubber tree is the plant for you.

Rubber plant growing too tall.

Growing in their native environments ficus elasticas can get 60 80 tall. 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. I want to trim my rubber tree because it is too tall but many of the leaves have fallen off. Don t worry though as a houseplant rubber plants usually get to around 8 10.

With careful pruning you can shape your rubber tree to be exactly as tall as you want. In its native environment it s normal for a rubber plant to grow to over 100 tall. For example if you have the rubber plant on a shelf without much room to grow upwards you may. Based on the space in which you re keeping the plant and your own personal taste choose which shape you d like the plant to have.

Decide on a shape for your rubber plant. Now there are only a few leaves left and they are all at the top. Rubber plants can grow up to 100 feet in their native homeland of southeast asia. But indoors a rubber tree typically tops out at 6 to 10 feet tall.

Rubber plants can have 1 of 2 shapes. A usually problem free indoor plant the rubber tree ficus elastica also grows outdoors in u s. Tall and thin or short and bushy. Perhaps yours needs to be cut back because it s gotten leggy is just too tall or maybe you want your plant to have a new look.

It now stands 6 from the ground. Department of agriculture hardiness. How to cut back a rubber tree plant that is 10 feet tall. Mine was growing in a 10 pot and i repotted it into a 15 pot last year more on that below.

I water it about once per week and fertilize about every 3 months using 19 6 12 osmocote smart release plant food. 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. Did you know that you can turn your tall skinny ficus elastica into a tree form. Yes it s definitely a tree.

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 plants are usually sold as floor plants.