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Anyone have any good tips for nice hanging planters with drainage holes? I've bought a lot from nkuku before but I always have to drill holes.... https://www.nkuku.com/products/matamba-ceramic-hanging-planter-lines-mp43

Does anyone have a largeish rubber plant or seen one that looks good?

I bought a small variegated one last year. It didn't grow over winter, put one tiny misshapen leaf out in early spring, but has doubled in height since then to about 18". Loads of new leaves and seems happy enough, I'm just worried about how quickly it's growing. I've often seen them big looking quite sad and awkward shapes. It's just one central stem and in a few years it'll be too big for the room and I don't want an actual rubber tree. I see them where they've obviously got too tall and been cut and awkwardly branch out and usually overbalance out of a too-small pot.

I don't know 1. How to take care of it but keep it small / slow growing if that's even possible. 2. How to shape it so it isn't just a beanpole that hits the ceiling. Can they be pruned?

My tip would be to use a normal plastic pot inside it and take it out to water it... unless your pots are hanging above a sink or something?

I find that plants do much better if you can thoroughly water them, and let them dry out completely. When they're cooped up in a watertight pot it's too easy for mould or rot to set it. And lots of my plants are too big and cumbersome to take out of the hanging planter to water every time. Drilling the pots with a tile drill bit is no big deal but I'm always on the lookout for nice new pots.

I must have not explained myself very well. I mean inside your waterproof pot you have a regular plastic pot with plenty of holes. The plant lives in the latter. When it's watering time you take the inner pot out and put it in the sink and water it, then put it back. No holes needed in the outer pot.

This is what I do with most of my houseplants - thought it was normal!

Edit- If you leave your hanging pots in place, with drainage holes, where does the water go when you water them?

what @lemonade said, don't ever pot directly into a decorative pot, always pot into a nursery plastic pot that has holes in it and put that inside the decorative pot

You were clear, I just prefer that my plants can drain completely. And many of them are too big to be pulling in and out of a second pot every watering.

What a beauty! Did you buy online?

Bought from a local b&m type store.

New plant day

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nice, the pot also looks pretty good 👍

I have a rubber plant that my brother bought from IKEA at least 12 years ago. I've been fairly negligent in my care of it as I already have a weeping fig which takes up a big chunk of one room and is actually too big to move now, and who tf needs a 12' rubber tree in their bathroom?

So now it's like a 5' semi mishapen rubber thing in my bathroom and I just carry on putting up with it cos it's there now.

Maybe a bit more than 5'

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Fungus nats....I keep getting them on my house plants. I've changed the soil tried and to keep the top dry but still they come back. Does a small covering of gravel on the top help ? They are so annoying. Are there any bug sprays to get rid of them ?

Leca balls help

I used some nematode worms. Worked a treat and they haven't returned.

Like Kat said, hydroleca or something similar to cover the soil surface. Can use horticultural grit too, but it is more annoying to remove if you want to top-dress/repot etc.

You can also hang a yellow sticky trap or two which will help drop the numbers quite quickly.

So, I have 3 separate plants growing in this pot which have taken off nicely. I want to repot into individual pots, but the roots are all intertwined. Is there an easy way to separate them, or will I damage the roots and kill them?
Any advice?

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Should be fine. Although I might wait until winter when it’s dormant.

Thanks will have a look.

@Brommers interesting I thought nametodes could harm plants

will I damage the roots and kill them?

yes

First of hopefully many from my lemon tree

I'm no expert, but I do know there are many different types of nematode worms. I don't think the ones that eat gnats eat plants. They're strictly carnivorous, in a good way.

This - they are specific even to the type of bug. The slug ones for example literally only kill slugs, not even snails, let alone plants

Any ideas what’s up with my alocasia?

I water it with about a cup full of water and feed but I seem to be losing a leaf every other week.

I tend dip a finger in the soil and if it’s dry I water it.

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