TLDR: Our rubber plant has outgrown our house, and we need to prepare for winter.
We moved into our house in the north Chicago suburbs about 10 years ago, and the house came with a small rubber plant. Fast-forward to today, and my wife has nursed it into a monstrosity. We no longer really have room for it indoors, and it thrived this summer. With winter approaching, we want to find a way for it to survive. We are thinking about greenhouses, etc., but not sure what the best ideas might be. Any suggestions?
by NeedAByteToEat
2 Comments
Cut it way back to the lowest nodes. It will shoot off more branches and less upward and outward. Should be fine from a pretty big trim but like any tree not more then 30% but if you take the longest largest branches off first it will significantly reduce the size. Unless you want to build a heated greenhouse this has to go back inside they are pretty sensitive to cold I don’t think that it would survive in an unheated greenhouse in Chicago.
A greenhouse will have to be efficiently heated to 60+ degrees (F) to keep that thing happy. As an ex-Clevelander with a small 6×8 greenhouse heated to a mere 40F, it’s possible, but will take a smart, well-planned build with the added will to pay for the cost of heating Oct-Apr.