Ficus Elastica Pink Rose

Also known as Ficus Elastica Ruby I’m definitely not in any Way shy about telling You how much I Love this plant and feel that Ficus Elastica Pink Rose is a much more appropriate (Common) name for this positively pretty in pink version of the Ficus Elastica Family!!!

What I Love about Ficus Elastica Pink Rose

I swear the pink on the new leaves become more vibrant and rich with every succession. Not only does this plant look gorgeous but it is growing very fast for Me compared to the Ficus Elastica Burgundy. This is also exactly the sort of ‘bushiness’ I am tall King about for My Vision of the Ficus Elastica Burgundy and what I am hoping for with respect to the overall shape of the plant. You may also notice that there are actually two plants in this pot, so it isn’t super bushy by nature, it seems to mainly be one stalk with leaves alternating as it grows upward, no branches.

The other thing I Love about Ficus Elastica Ruby is as the leaves harden off, they become white variegated rather than pink. The pink colour seems to get richer and more vibrant with every new leaf as the older leaves are still hardening off, Giving the plant an almost continuously evolving look. The white variegations is just as stunning and beautiful as the pink, but the pink coloured Crown is what I feel Gives it the more appropriate Common name, ‘Pink Rose’ – it reminds Me of a flower – too beautiful to be a tree (I’m not being serious, trees).

If One can care for one Ficus Elastica, in My experiences One can care for them all. I also have a Ficus Elastica Lyrata, or ‘Fiddle Leaf’ by Common name, and I’m really excited about that one due to the potential of its individual leaf size which Gives it a bushy look early. You’ll find it here in the Virtual Good Green Thumb Nursery soon.

How Long in My Keep?

I should probably try to Keep track of when I acquired each of My plants but that might be difficult now, though I could probably Give a reasonable estimate. This plant is about four months in My care, purchased for five dollars on sale at My local supermarket. How could I resist adding it to My collect-Sean?

It was in a four inch pot when I got it and probably about eight inches tall, the second one probably three inches tall and barely visible. I didn’t cut the second stem, that was how I acquired it, but I presume it was done to create exactly the same effect I am trying to create but with no sucess. I do know it can be done and in most of My other plants it is very typical for a plant to put out more than one new shoot if the top shoot is removed. Some plants Will die if One does that, too so don’t try it if One doesn’t konw what they are doing. T

Propagate Sean

These plants propagate very easily just by cutting a good portion of the main stem with lots of leaves, strip off a couple of the bottom leaves. Be sure allow the trunk where it was cut to harden off overnight, then stick directly into either water or perlite – I recommend perlite and let the perlite wick water so that the stem is above the water line, using the perlite to wick moisture and it Will develop roots in no time. I actually propagated a leaf cutting with the petiole once but I’ve tried it with five other leaves since with no success, so I don’t recommend. I’m not going to bother again unless I’m just stripping a leaf and have nothing better to do with it. When I DID have success this Way, I let the leaf stem/petiole harden off overnight and then the next day placed the stem in the top of an old green-glass pop bottle. It did nothing for a really long time but the leaf didn’t die, either so I just left it alone. Eventually, the end of the petiole/leaf stem started to swell and turn brown and developed almost like a bulb that then started to put out white little roots. I put it in soil immediately and foolishly, to be honest because I let it dry out and it died almost instantly, leaf included. But they were clearly roots so I figure it must be possible.