Hi,

I was just wondering if anyone had some good advice on rubberplants.

I bought a rubberplant about 3 years ago. It was nice and straight, but when we moved house it wouldn't fit in the car. For this reason I cut the top half off.

This resulted in the plant growing to branches out to one side (horizontally). After some inital placing issues, the plant has a new place outside and seems to love it, as the 3 existing branches are happily growning (one straight up and two horizontally to one side). By now the plant looks like it will soon just fall out of the pot, as it is so lopsided.

Does anyone have some advice on how to encourage growth on the other side (I've turned it and all that without a result)?

If I cut one of the horizontal branches off, is it possible to grow a new plant out of the cut off branch? How do you go about it?

I'm looking forward to hearing some creative ideas. Thanks heaps

it depends..cutting to horizontal growth will just start more but this may help. "piching the tips" is where you pinch of the little part of the top of the stem where the leaves come out. doing this with crate more hgorizontal growth which will result in a bushier well rounded plant as long as you keep up with the pinching. However i have no experience wioth this plant so im sure someone more experienced on the rubber tree can help you! good luck

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