Help....Have A Rubber Plant that is out of Control!

Help.....My daughter has a Rubber Plant that came with a gift in a small planter 5 years ago....IShe has since transplanted it 10 times over......Now its outta control.....My question is....How does she take cuttings off of this plant. Its too tall and top heavey. Can she cut off the top and root what what she cuts... How does she root it????.....She lives in Zone 7. It is keep indoors in her sunroom during the winter months, but when spring comes it lives out on the deck.....
I told her since she has such a green thumb, she should donate it to some Community Building where she lives, and start all over.....

Deann

Here is a pix of the rubber plant in question

Your daughter can cut the stalks at the heighth she want it to branch. My mother has had success rooting the cuttings in water. I prefer to air layer. I have a 9 foot variegated fig tree that needs to be repotted.

She could probably get a set of tires out of that :-)

I just cut my rubber tree where ever I want it to branch and then stick the cuttings in moist potting soil and keep it in the shade. They root pretty easy. She may want to be aware of the sticky sap that's milky white, because some folks are sensitive to it if it gets on their skin.
If she want more plants, but smaller plants she can cut each leaf or 2 with a piece of the stem and stick those down. They will make a new plant, but more table top size.:) Then she will have pleanty to share.

MsC

I do the same thing that msC does and it works about 100% of the time I prefer the stem cutting to the leaf just for time reasoning, but the leaf cuttings work at about the same rate . Don't worry you'll have great success. Mike

We have one about 50' by 80' and growing out of control....DH loves it...he won't trim it. I would blow it up for 5 cents. They suck anything nutritional out of the soil and NOTHING will grow within 100 feet of it except weeds!!!

Lol aloha. I was thinking it was small too. It is all relative. They are thugs. Leopard plants seem to get along with them.

I just want to say thank you so much for all of your ideas and thoughts about the Rubber Tree Plant......We still have not cut it yet, as I have been sick here for the past few days......thinking of maybe getting to it today.....


Deann

Hello everyone

Back in May, I asked for your help on cutting back a Rubber Tree plant that had grown over 6 ft. tall....Well, I went back to visit my daughter this past weekend, and the two plants are doing great. I took a picture of one of them.

Deann

Lovely plant! Now it's my turn to have mine grow out of control... :)

Love a success story. Looks good.

I love rubber plants. here is a pic of of one type of variegated. Mine is cream/green. I have noticed there is one that is cream and green with a lot of reddish/purple in it.

Wow! great looking plants one and all! I've got one growing under fluorescents that are doing well also!