Simple Way To Care And Grow Baby Rubber Plant at home

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Baby Rubber plant is characterized by its thick upright stems with glossy, oversized leaves. It stores water in its thick leaves. Leaves are typically dark green, but can also have white or yellow leaves.

Other Names:
Baby Rubber plant is  also known as the peperomia

In this video you will learn How to care and propagate Baby Rubber Plant at your home


Where to Keep your plant
You have to keep your plant in Full sun to partial shade and it is favorable for Baby Rubber (Baby Rubber) plant. For indoors, this plant will be benefited from west to south-facing windows.

When to Water Baby Rubber (Baby Rubber)?

Baby Rubber plants thrive in the heat and are very drought-tolerant once established. If you wish to boost the life span of the Baby Rubber plant, make sure not to overwater it. In fact, let the soil dry before watering it again. Moreover, water the plant less frequently in the rainy season.

When to feed Fertilizer
For Baby Rubber (Baby Rubber) has moderate fertilization needs. apply vermi compost once a month for better growth

How to Prune Baby Rubber plant (Baby Rubber)?

Once your Baby Rubber (Baby Rubber) plant starts to grow fast, make sure that you have a habit of cutting them regularly to become bushier rather than growing as a miniature tree. They spread fast, the bushier plant tends to have more leaves in the branches.

Temperature

The average temperature for growing Baby Rubber plant  should be around 15°C-20C as it does not perform well in cold weather.

Effective Drainage
An excellent soil drainage is crucial to grow Baby Rubber (Baby Rubber). Take a pot make a small hole and fill with a small stone for the effective drainage.

Soil and Pot
To grow Baby Rubber (Baby Rubber) soil mixture is very important, you have to use Gardening soil of 50%, River sand 25% and vermi compost. Fill the pot with the soil mixture of garden soil, river sand and organic compost.

 

How to Grow and propagate Baby Rubber (Baby Rubber) 
Growing of Baby Rubber (Baby Rubber) plant is very easy and It can be propagated both in water and soil from stem cuttings from the mother plant

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·       From Stem Cuttings (Soil): It’s easy to propagate Baby Rubber from stem cuttings and leave cuttings . Take a stem cutting  from mother plant and remove the leaves from the bottom.  Insert this stem and leave cuttings in the soil a few inches deeper, with leaves above the soil surface. Mist it lightly and keep in the full sun.

 After 10 days, you can see Baby Rubber (Baby Rubber) cuttings started growing. Add the water before digging out of the stem cuttings from the soil. You can see we have gently started digging out the stem cutting to see the development of the roots. you can see the well-developed roots from stem and leave cuttings.

You can repot all the well-developed Baby Rubber (Baby Rubber) plant in a new pot to grow an individually.

Diseases

Baby Rubber (Baby Rubber) plant is generally not damaged by aphids.so you can use a water-soap solution to kill the insects and bug attacks. And, don’t forget to remove infected parts immediately.

Precautions

Not known to be toxic. Best practice is always to keep houseplants out of reach of small children and pets.

When to Re-pot Baby Rubber (Baby Rubber)?

If you find the roots growing out of the pot will require a transplant, maybe every two or three years approximately.

I hope you like this Video. Happy Planting. Thanks for watching

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