The mighty rubber tree has been a favorite houseplant since the Victorian era. It’s hardy, easy to care for, and actually removes toxins from the air in your home!
In this guide, we’ll take a look at exactly how to care for your own rubber tree plant.
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Hi Kevin, the species that is used to mass-produce industrial rubber is Hevea brasiliensis, not this guy 🙂
Is this called a Sarah? I want one so bad but they are hard to come by and super expensive. I can’t justify paying over $100 for something I’ll probably kill.
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If it is pests in the soil bake it. I got pests in my metal pot and I put it in the oven on 200° F for 30 minutes and then 300° F for and other 30 minutes. I have also put my clay pots in the oven. Just be aware and watch your pot.
brought mine for £2.50 back in march before lockdown and since its grown 4 leafs just put a drainage hole in the bottom and feeding it and wipe down the leafs and yet i didnt know i was doing ok XD
thanksssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss and i just bought my rubber plant in this wk ……… and its only one $
Really informative thank you
Does anyone know why it develops brown edges like it's getting burnt? And how to stop it from browning? Thanks.
Thanks for the info I tried too propagate in water and it turned to mush /;
This dude telling us how to care for a rubber plant, but his looks like shit..
Growing Aspargus ferns
Okay, so I recently watched another one of your videos when you dispelled the myth of the rocks at the bottom of the pot… I take it this video was made before that one?
So epic.
Can I have one ?
I love that you use clay pots. Coming back to houseplant love after a long hiatus and I used to use clay pots , but many people today use plastic pots. Can you tell me about your preference.
I have the dark green one is growing like a monster. After hearing vídeo run to my plant to check on water logging since I had watered plenty few days ago. Full panic. Lol! Great video! Thank you!
Hi.. I had brought a rubber tree 5 months back. But it doesnt produce any new leaves and neither it looks like dying.. what can be the reason?
In one of your other videos you mentioned to not put rocks at the bottom of pots. That it’s more of a myth. But in this case you should ?
I have a gigantic rubber tree plant that I got almost twenty years ago. It is majestic, and has many "children"!
Perfect .very nice video .
it was all wat I. wanted to know.
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Thanks alot.
hi! recently i bought a very small ficus tineke and i want a tree but I bought one with a lot of different small stems? will each of them grow into their own tree? or will it just be a bush
My grandmothers rubber tree is about 29 years old, she had it as a house plant for the longest time and when we moved to Texas in 2004 we planted it in the bank yard and that thing has grown like crazy!
What is the main cause of brown burnt leaves from edges.. what sud I do if I notice it
Very, very surprised that you would advise people to put 'rocks or gravel' at the bottom of the pot for better drainage. This is completely contrary to the physic principles regarding water translocation. When water moves from a denser medium to a more open (soil to gravel) the water will remain in the denser medium until it reaches absolute saturation and only then will capillary action kick in to start water moving into the more open medium. This can very well leave a plant drenched in water for an extended period of time. Courser material preserves air pockets because of this principle.
The next factor is the height of the soil column. When you add gravel to the bottom of your pot you shorten the soil column which means there is less translocation and therefore more saturated soil. Short (azalea) pots are used for plants such as azaleas that like to be kept on the moister side. (Remember the soaked towel experiment done in school)
If you want to ensure your plant does not sit in water then put gravel in the bottom of the cover pot. This allows water to be drawn down by capillary action down the entire length of the pot where the total accumulation provides enough to pressure to drain the water out of the pot.
Gravel in the bottom of pots is a very old and disruptive myth that I suspect came from the misunderstanding of which pot to put the rocks in.
My burgundy one has started to grow air roots, should i be concerned? Is this a good thing or bad? Does it even matter?
Why am I thinking about TheRubber doing an SCP video on SCP-038, or “the everything tree”?