How to Make Your Rubber Plant More Bushy

[@patsy1746]

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

[@HouseplantHacks]

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

[@umarhussain3870]

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

[@soberplantguy]

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

[@soberplantguy]

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

[@HouseplantHacks]

Thank you so much! :-)

[@susaneastman4867]

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

[@HouseplantHacks]

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

[@_RandomPea]

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]

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

[@caroljohnson2238]

Can you kindly tell me why I'm losing leafs every so often?

[@cee7105]

Can I ask why you never cut it before it turned into a beanstalk 😅

[@HouseplantHacks]

Because it makes for a useful KZbin video! ;-)

[@cee7105]

@@HouseplantHacks Fair point 😅

[@juliechisholm7836]

How is the plant doing now?😊

[@JB-he6ek]

Should I be cutting off leaves that have gotten the brown spots?

[@JB-he6ek]

Also, mine, splits into two taller stems from one base. Should I cut one and replant

[@atefasharmeen7951]

My rubber plant died after chopping it..

[@stephaniehirst2600]

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]

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]

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.

[@lauraprofesorado3796]

I'll be pruning mine shortly (Spring coming here) to make it bushy! The wisest thing would be to chop the growing tip, right? Mine is only 40 cms tall... Thanks!