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Homes & Gardens
Tenielle Jordison

Rubber plant looking bare? Houseplant experts swear by this simple technique to make it bushier

Rubber plant in bedroom, leading to a bathroom.

My rubber plant is one of my favorite houseplants in my collection. These fabulous plants grow on a tall stem that resembles a trunk, with leathery panels of foliage pointing outwards. They can remain quite slender if you just let them grow, but it's actually possible to make a rubber plant bushy. You just have to use on particular technique.

In fact, making your rubber plant bushy is sometimes essential to rubber plant care, especially if it's showing signs of leggy growth. By learning this one technique to prune your rubber plant, you can encourage new branch growth, so there isn't just one main stem of foliage.

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