Rubber Plants serve as great decorative plants indoors and add a lot of aesthetic value to your home. Growing them is not as difficult as it seems. Though they can grow into full length trees if kept in your gardens, they are easy to tend to indoors as well.

Rubber plant is an evergreen tropical plant that can grow up to 50 feet. It can be grown indoors (up to 3 m) as an ornamental plant. Para rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) is grown for for the production of commercial rubber.

It is better to get them while they are still small, to help them adapt to your home conditions. Keeping them in small pots restricts their growth as their roots do not have too much space to spread, thus making them ideal houseplants.

Instructions to grow rubber plants indoors:

Light: Rubber plants quite enjoy a lot of bright light, but not direct sunlight. A spot in the house that is shielded from direct sunlight works well with them!

Water: Their water requirements vary seasonally. In summer months, they like their soil to be kept moist with regular misting; during winters or as autumn sets in, they require less water every couple of weeks to keep it from wilting.

Temperature: They require moderate temperature to thrive well. If the temperature becomes too hot or drops too low, it might affect the growth of the rubber plant.

We’ll be sharing more about this plant in future.