What should I do with this Rubber Tree Plant?!?
I was given this plant a few months ago and at that time it had 4 healthy stems producing leaves. All was well until I broke my leg and spent a bit in the hospital and once home I could not walk and water it and my family forgot all about it. I think it was about 3 weeks before I could get back to it and by then 3 of the 4 stems were brown and kind of crunchy. I checked them as I read in another article to see if the plant underneath the bark was green or not and one was not so I cut it at the soil. one still had some green in it so I trimmed it back and the other was questionable and I trimmed it as well. The result is what is shown in the photo I am posting. What should I do with it to bring it back to the point where it is pretty to look at. Right now it's clearly and ugly duckling.....
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8 years agoBe very judicious about your watering. Make SURE the soil is nearly dry deep in the pot before you water. The plant will tolerate full sun outdoors. If it's not acclimated to full sun, do so gradually. Withhold fertilizer until you see new growth.
If your soil is very water-retentive, you should add some ballast to the bottom of the pot. Ballast, done correctly, reduces the amount of soil that CAN hold perched water, and in doing so reduces the amount of excess water the soil can hold o/a. Example:
If you nearly fill the bottom of the pot with some sort of ballast, you can actually confine the entire perched water column to a very small volume of soil - 'nearly' being a key word. You don't want to fill the bottom entirely.Note how the PWT is the same ht in all the pictures. That can be used to the growers advantage. Note the different ways (below) that excess water can be eliminated. Examples C and D are illustrative of what anyone can do to reduce the volume of perched water in heavy soils. It's so easy to reduce the o/a volume that anyone using heavy soils should consider employing some sort of technique to help mitigate the limitations levied by soggy soils.
Al
Al
- 8 years ago
- 8 years ago
tapla (mid-Michigan, USDA z5b-6a)