5 Quick Tips Ficus elastica🪴

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1/ Placement 00:28
2/ Water 03:01
3/ Yellow leafs/Leaves 04:15
4/ Cleaning it 05:15
5/ Pruning 06:38
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[@monagrin5778]

My grandparents passed away a couple months ago and left me with so many plants. You have been such a great teacher and so far nothing had died on me 🙏

[@Andrea-ud9lp]

I saw a massive ficus elastica tree (2-3 meters) when i visited greece last summer, living outside in the hot summer sun. After seeing that i concluded that they probably can adapt to direct sunlight. Mine at home live south facing now and are doing great 😊

[@gggreece1107]

I totally agree, in Greece, where in summer gets really hot, ficus elastica can adapt and thrive ! Good luck to everyone. Just to mension that I am sure about the green version of the plant. Never seen a variegated version as an outdoor tree here.

[@pjagustin]

I had my Ficus in our bedroom and noticed that it grows too slow. When I put it under direct sunlight getting bright sunlight between 8AM and 4PM and noticed the growth is a lot faster. I live in a tropical country where temperature can go up as high as 104 °F. It's doing great in that condition for over a year now.

[@thebluerose4179]

I have all south facing windows. Have always had my three rubber plants (Abidjan, Belize, Tineke) in direct sun, they love it, never had any burning issues thankfully.

[@sheilaseals6027]

Thank you for sharing

[@mike1968442]

Those are some beautiful plants you have there.

[@camuchacustodio2661]

Thank you for all your teaching ✨💓

[@hattierobinson347]

I wiped my leaves with mayonnaise to get the shine. After that, the leaves started dropping off. They seem healthy, very green. 😂😂

[@silviamancillaroman3747]

Thank you !!! I was waiting for this video ❤️

[@firasallawi6172]

Thank you so much for your explanation...

[@Bohointerior]

Thank you so much! Very informative❤

[@andymujal6103]

Very nice looking rubber tree plant

[@elladumaplin6922]

Watching from Florida,USA and came upon your channel while surfing on KZbin and I am incredibly impressed by the way you present all the aspects pertaining to the title of your presentations. I must say,you are the best of them all. Your delivery is on point,easy to understand,concise,clear and science backed up. Are you a botanist? Agriculture Degree? I binge a lot of your presentations and I am in awe. Thank you so much. I learned a lot from you and I am now an ardent subbie.

[@happinessinleaf]

Thanks for the tips

[@ervicito77]

This video was super helpful! I have two Ficus Elastica and thanks to you, I now know how to better take care of them. Thank you! 🫂

[@freshbreeze108]

Thank you for the great interesting video. I like all your videos.

[@immatureradical]

I am growing a tineke (the most popular variegated version) for three years now and even that can handle more light than most people claim. During the winter it was close to a western window and held up fine. In the summer it goes outside, where the light and heat can be too much. In those conditions it grows rapidly and can handle at least a couple of hours of sun in the afternoon, but if the temperature routinely goes above 35 Celsius and it still gets some full sun, some of the white parts of leaves can get circular burns. Even if this rarely happened to mine, I try to keep it under a cloth canopy, because It kind of limits the variegation after a while when it gets enough full sun. It seems that towards the end of the summer it tries to protect new leaves by giving them its darkest color possible across almost the entire leaf. When it gets less light, it comes back to full variegation again. In parts of the country where winters are warmer it's not rare to see the robusta growing outside all year in full sun so I doubt its leaves would ever burn if it was acclimatized to it.

[@howtokillaplant]

Absolutely. Where I live there are many robusta trees growing in full sun. An indoor plant would definitely need to acclimate and some of the older leaves may burn but the new ones will grow back stronger and equipped to handle the sun

[@tp5805]

I was in greece last year and there was a HUGE Ficus elastica in their garden. Like about 10m high idk. Direct sunlight and 40 degrees. It was the most beautiful tree i‘ve ever seen.

[@1BergerVongSchlauigkeitHer]

Every plant I've ever bought has gone straight into a south-facing window with full sun whenever the sun is out before deciding how to continue. I will never understand why people are afraid of giving their plants too much light indoors. Full sun through a window is already way less powerful than direct sunlight - you know, the one plants are usually naturally exposed to. Looking for plants that can survive in less light due to where you want to place them is one thing, but you don't have to protect them from getting "too much" light.

[@immatureradical]

@@1BergerVongSchlauigkeitHer What's more, when we say plants want bright indirect light, in most cases this means that in typical homes - meaning not with huge glass surfaces - it's not going to be quite bright enough unless you let some direct light hit them through the window. I live in Greece, have tens of houseplants and with the exception of some calatheas where portions of the leaves are white, nothing has ever burnt its leaves inside the house because it got a few hours of direct sunlight. Everything else seems to benefit from being outside in the summer and the most sensitive ones just need to be slowly acclimatized to more light and/or would not like simply being left to full sun from noon to sunset, but a few hours of sunlight in the morning or afternoon does nothing bad to them. This includes dracenas and most common aroids like monstera, epipremnum, diffenbachia etc.

[@nadezhdadimitrova4042]

beautiful video, excellent presentation

[@mar_chuf]

Thanks a lot!

[@IshaniScards]

I had mostly been the floral plants person until few months back and have been watching many Plant care content Creators and hands down, YOU are the best!! I don't even want to see any more suggestions on a particular topic, you have every thing!! And such details... thank you.. thank you for sharing your wisdom. I have been binging on your channel all day today and thought, I must comment and let you know that I am so glad I found you!! Love from India ❤️

[@EolianWolf]

Great info as always, thank you!! I have a pot with multiple ruby varigated rubber trees but one in the group is unique - half the leaves grow ruby varigated and half grow reverted like a regular green rubber tree. Occasionally there's a leaf that pops up on the border line and the leaf grows a half and half split of varigated/reverted. It's been doing well with lots of indirect light - where I put it for quarantine when I brought it home ended up being its happy spot! Thanks for the tip with the yellowing lower leaves - that's a helpful indicator! I don't think I've seen a video on your channel for a Norfolk island pine - I know they drop their lower branches too when they're stressed. I'd love to see a care video for those if you make one! I have one that I've been caring for (mostly successfully lol) for 2+ years.

[@Steady4word]

Love this vid!

[@rn3119]

Just love how he speaks English with a touch of skånska. ”Reubusta” 😂 Great video guys 👍🏽

[@boardammo1593]

Nice tips my dudes! Ur 1 of my fav plant channels!

[@azrinaabdulkadir1892]

Thanks for the info & tips. I've never known that the ficus elastica burgundy is called abidjan. It's also a robust tree and it has given me so much joy by giving me new shoot almost every month. I've seen them under full sun all day here in tropical country. They have acclimatised well I supposed.

[@OneantasTossGreathouse]

Hello thank you great advice I just saved a varieated one form a nursery bought it for 2.00 it seems to be doing well and I will use these tips and pray of continues to do well with these tips

[@thephotographersunny]

Thanks Sir

[@planetplantuniverse]

Thank you again! Could you do an episode on tillandsia in northern conditions? I would greatly appreciate it!

[@SilkMilkJilk]

My Abijan and even my Tineke are south facing window and they eat up all the sun no problem. They are, as all my Ficusses, very thirsty tho and get a drink twice a week. They're in pumice.

[@ayeshamuhammad6829]

In my country (Pakistan), it can grow at a very high temperature, like 30° to 39° in direct sunlight. I had grown cutting with my own hands. That's why I don't think that it can not grow in direct sunlight, and even my neighbor had a very big tree beside their front gate.

[@GuessOurMenuforToday]

I live in the Philippines and our 3 year old Abidjan stays indoors near the strong tinted window glass with 4:00pm - 5:30pm sunlight daily. They don't burn their leaves if its placed in there and meet the same conditions like ours.

[@trixier6505]

I have a huge rubber plant that has been butchered over the years but doesn't seem to mind. My house has few good windows, so I put grow lights next to it during the cold months here in north Georgia, US. It is beautiful, even after at least 25 years. I do the same for my umbrella plant, which needs more light than the rubber plant.

[@jeffreyjflim]

I have been waiting for this, thank you! Do you think that you could do an extended "all you need to know about" version?

[@aspirativemusicproduction2135]

I put mine in full sun in the spring. It may get few burned leaves but that's not big deal since the new leaves will be fine. So you don't lose many leaves year to year. Full sun recommended. It's a tree after all.

[@valeriemalliris4918]

You are so great at teaching to those of us not quite in the know! Question are these rubber plants in pumice?

[@swathikamath412]

Beautiful. Subscribed😊. Thank you for the information. Would you please tell me why new leaves are growing small

[@aleanapt]

Can you do a bird of paradise detailed video please!!! Love your channel and content!!

[@mauricebrown24]

Firstly, my compliments to another informative and most needed video. Excellent presentation. I have a Tineke rubber plant and a Burgundy rubber plant. Both are in 3 inch nursery pots. They are both approximately 12 inches tall. They have both seem to just stop growing whilst producing new buds. They both look healthy. The average temperature is around 75 degrees. I do know both need bigger pots, though there are no exposed roots out of the bottom of either pot. The temp isn't too low, I wouldn't think. There are no yellowing of leaves. The Tineke is still nicely variegated around the leaf edges. They have been fertilized lightly. With all this being said, could the too small pots be the reason they have ceased to grow while putting out a new bud? Thanks

[@nn843]

I have my ficuses in a mix of pumice, leca and pine bark. They really like it. The only downside is that they need to be watered regulary. 😊

[@MiscellaneousMichelle]

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[@Zakariah1971]

Please do a lecture about everything you need to know about the weeping fig for an apartment. Ficus Benjamica. Thank you sir.

[@yuliarychkova7578]

Thank you! I wish you also mentioned if there were any other ways the plant communicates through its leaves. Some of my tineke's leaves are folding to the center a little bit, some of them looking straight up while others point down.

[@Mimi-fr8gf]

Overall good tips! But I do disagree with your watering tips. I be very careful when watering your rubber tree. They are very prone to root rot and they do not like to be overwatered (overwatering is not the amount u water when you water, instead it means u give it water when the soil is still wet). In my experience, they like to dry out between watering so I would wait longer than just 1-2 inches of the topsoil to dry out. Get a moister meter and start lifting your plant up to see how it feels when due a water. In that way you get to know what the plants feels like when due a water. When your moister meter is inserted all the way down and is reading between 3-4, it’s time to saturate the soil. Also, yellowing of the leaves can also be a sign on over watering. 🇸🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@sandraswan9008]

So, you actually agree with what he said? This isn't contradictory to the information in the video.

[@zeenatiqbal4823]

I like your videos a lot it's really very helpful please make a video about how to control milybugs how to treat them

[@ponbounket8057]

Thank you for sharing!! Love your video! I'm having problem with my rubber plant. Either I water it too much or I don't give enough sunlight.

[@Zakariah1971]

You are like a professor. Do you have a PhD in Botany? You should do a video for those interested in becoming a botanist.

[@gamku]

Can you make a video about how to propagate a ficus elastica, please? Some peeople use plastic bags and I wonder if that is necessary. And if you could also explain how to prune for different looks. How do you get such a straight ficus like the one on the right of the screen?

[@gyorsiviolin]

Thank you for the good tips and tricks! Recently I am searching for an explanation to a phenomenon that I am experiencing right now. Hopefuly you can help me figuring out what it is. I have a ficus benjamina and it has white little dots/spots on the back of each leaf, on the petioles where they connect with the leaf. These dots are greasy to touch, and dont occure anywhere else, just at the described places of the leafs, but are present on each and every leaf. My concern is that I don't know wether these are pests, or this is just something that the plant is produducing, like some kind of wax? So for now I have decided to remove these things by hand (it really took me a while...) and treated the plant with a pesticide. I have taken some pictures too, and I would be so grateful for some help! Thank you!

[@ALYoung-wj8td]

Thank you for the information!! I do have a variegated plant!! It is looking lovely its at least12 inches and growing really well!! I keep it under my grow lights in our office in the house away from drafts and heater vents!! How many hours should I keep it under the grow lights though??

[@ianbarr5646]

Great video! I have the variegated ficus and it started producing pure white leaves. Maybe it is receiving too much sun?

[@ChristosAlexandris]

Hello from Greece. Great video! Is possible to make noching with this plant (like ficus lyrata)? Plus... What substrate mix do you suggest for this plant?

[@ferasi6944]

Many thanks for the great tips. I have a robusta and it grows fine next to grows lights and if the PH is not too high. You do great videos and it is a pleasure to follow you! It is also fine that you promote your channel. In this video it felt it was too much for me. At the beginning and at the end of this video you asked to follow you. In this short video you showed several times the flash icons for thumbs up and the bell which disturbed me. Just my thoughts on this.

[@JennyEkberg]

Robusta, the simple green one, is my favourite. I have lots of colours but I always come back to this one.

[@benjaminjinright5001]

Will you please do a video on the aloe plant?

[@SulaimanAbuYaseen]

I’m from Middle East. Oman 🇴🇲. I grow this plant outside. Temperature reaches 45c 😂. Still growing 😅

[@kseniyalevinstein2007]

Just got a beautiful green and pink variety from my local @traderjoes! Thank you for this video! Now I’m prepared to be a plant mom to this guy!😊

[@mehranashkanian2747]

Hi. How you make the leaves on Ficus Elastica so big. ? Would Giberellic Acid spray with very low concentration at 2-3 months intervals help the leaves grow as big as you have next to you now ? Appreciate your kind reply Thanks 🙏🙏🍃🍃

[@Alex.i]

I wish you also discussed about why does the ficus elastica choose to lose its leaves. is it because the change of placement or what is it?

[@TheTakashimadaira]

Can we put those different rubber plants in one pot? I have those and I want to put it together but still scarred to do it, I love those plants!

[@vliet34]

Amazing as always. I absolutely love your videos and I'm always waiting for the next one! Thank you so much for making them, I would like to ask if you could make a video in the future about the Ginseng plant? All the best to you

[@ronniebasil4400]

Question. So my rubber plant is just growing wild...love it...but its growing to one side. Like its slanting. What do you recommend

[@creativemillwork6408]

What is your opinion on bottom watering the house plants?? I love your channel!!

[@worldgonemad1977]

I always water all my soil planted plants from the bottom. I put enough water in the sink to cover all the drainage holes and leave the plant sitting there for 10 mins until it sucks up all the water it wants then let them drip until any extra water drips out. (Don’t let them sit in water in their pots because the roots will rot) then almost dry them out for the next watering.

[@danizg9081]

I have an Abidjan that I got from someone, it was beautiful and growing nicely but I think my watering pattern was not the same as her and started dying little by little now I just have one out of three so I hope it don’t die I feel like I don’t have the right dirt for it

[@FIFII]

Mine likes some direct sun, it doesn’t grow if it just gets indirect sun.

[@aprilbragg1403]

I just got a ficus burgundy and it’s like a stick with all the leaves at the top. Maybe 5 leaves. Will leaves grow towards the bottom or should I cut the plant down and repot or leave it alone?

[@Maria-wc3wr]

What is the red pointed stem in the middle of my ficus elastica? Also is it okay to change the soil as my soil has come up with white mouldy/webby looking bits? Thank you 🙏🏽

[@KatieDeGo]

I have a ficus elastica robusta, 3ft tall, and I would like to put it in a terrarium for a crested gecko. Crested geckos are native to New Caledonia so the Temps will be I the 70s almost always, with daily exposure to UVA/UVB light, misting, light watering. Would this be a good environment? Thank you 😊

[@FistofNorris]

When pruning the top of the rubber plant, does the 'cap' the height of that stem? AKA will new growth continue out of that trimmed spot again? if so, does it branch off in a certain direction? My rubber plant is very tall, I'm concerned if I prune the top, that it will look like a pitch fork.

[@immatureradical]

The cut stem will not grow but the new branch will soon go higher. You're right, it grows in the same direction as the leaf that existed at that point and people use this to induce branching as desired. I grew mine with no branches due to limited space so I don't have a definite answer to your concern. Sometimes when you cut the top you get a few branches and some are a bit lower than others but it depends on various factors, including the age of the plant - high and less woody parts of the trunk will always have priority to branch. Indeed I've seen tall ficus being cut and ending up Y-shaped and it looked funny. One improvement would be to recut one branch in that case and stake the other to make it straighter and break the awkward symmetry I guess. When mine reaches the ceiling in a few years, I guess I won't hesitate to cut it very low, propagate the cuttings, add them to the same pot and have a fuller ficus, if my house is less crowded with plants by then that is. Also, many claim that if you make a shallow notch to the trunk you may force new buds to come out but I haven't actually seen it happen by now.

[@valeriemalliris4918]

Oops asked too soon. Would you plant in pumice? I'm wanting to convert my plants from soil.

[@Vicky-we2zv]

Thanks for info. My plant ( colorful)has small brown spot on the leave And i can see it under the leave Could u help me?

[@ladychi7618]

I didn't know they get so tall wow

[@larryshannon6791]

Is it OK to put them in a self watering system?

[@Telamond]

Can you make a video about common pests and how to get rid of them? I am having trouble with gnats...

[@JennyEkberg]

Use BTI, bacteria that eat the larvae. Has saved my plants completely as I live in a subtropical climate with lots of gnat problems.

[@denellelloyd1280]

I have a ficus burgundy sitting outside and it gets afternoon sun but not driect sun and it's thriving

[@parisa4697]

Is the green one on the left actually shinier or its just how i see it. I have the dark one and its not really shinny so i was wondering

[@sabafirdous5]

Please could you tell if the ficus audrey and the indian banyan are the same plant or not? They look hell similar...

[@lenafromgreece]

Hello. I bought a ficus elastica online recently and some leaves are broken or cut. Can I somehow fix it? Or should I accept that my ficus is going to be wothout leaves and some half leaves?

[@elizautulo6862]

Hi. I hope someone can help me. I have a rubber tree. When I originally bought it, it had 3 other little branches. After 3 weeks, I decided to remove these branches which were down to thr roots area. Now, the mother tree that was left has not been growing since. It has been probably 6 weeks. I tried putting plant food, but no improvements still. I live in hawaii, btw. Any thoughts?

[@siddharthmohanty6912]

Sir how to get these big leaves my leaves are way smaller.Although it is in bright area.

[@JennyEkberg]

Ingenting går upp mot gamla Skåne! Tack för en bra video! jag hälften av mina ute. Jag bor på Guldkusten i Australien så vår kallaste vinternatt är kanske 8 grader... så här funkar de ute året om. Men jag har dem inne också.

[@GEMAR885]

my ficus plant has stopped growing since a year ..what is the solution?

[@Aprilhojazz]

My poor baby of three years is having many leaves turning yellow 😢 in the veins. I don’t understand why it starts to react so badly. It survived lockdown when i cannot water it for three months. I’m sad. If i increase the frequency will it turn green again? Thank you.

[@arshafirdous2979]

Can you please tell how to stop a lemon lime rubber plant from reverting?

[@aprilgramse7928]

The only thing I know is plants mostly revert because lack of light... hope that helps!

[@cherylhamilton8774]

My ficus burgundy stop growing. The new leaf just sits there, not growing to give a new leaf🤔 Can you give me any tips.

[@cherylhamilton8774]

I have my ficus in an east facing window I am in Canada and now it’s fall going into winter, soon this plant really grew a lot in the summer in the same place, so I do not know why the leaf stop growing.

[@beverleyfiedler6204]

Some of my leaves are curling...?

[@pozzee2809]

PLEASE Help, my houseplants (variety of tropicals) keep getting infested with bugs. First it was those soil ones and now it is spider mites. I can’t get rid of either of them. I have tried every natural remedy I have found online, but nothing is working. Please, what can I do to save these plants? 😢

[@pozzee2809]

Any suggestions????

[@JennyEkberg]

For fungus gnats, use BTI bacteria that eat the larvae. For all other pests, spray with neem oil, and if it gets really bad, spray with pyrethrum. Spray, leave for 30 min, shower off the spray completely. Repeat for 3 days.

[@arun.sekher]

The in-video caption reads 'Rubusta,' but isn't 'Robusta' the correct term?

[@navdeepsingh-pk5qk]

why have you such big rubber plants leaves?😢