I wasn't able to see anything you did. Show us what a " node " looks like. You were too gar away from the camera to see anything. Please film what you do up close so we can all see exactly what you are doing. We can learn if we can't see it. Thank you.
In the video I explain what a node is (where the leaf attaches to the stem), so for a Schefflera there are plenty of nodes to be seen and it does not really matter where you make the cut in the stem. I unfortunately only have 1 camera (without autofocus), so I cannot film from different angles or up close or anything. In some of my newer videos I sometimes zoom into the places, for instance in my dracaena video.
Yours is the 6th video I tried watching to help me with this and it was definitely the best and most straightforward. I’ve been anxious about pruning my schefflera for ages and now I feel more confident that it will be okay! Thanks!
I am trying to save a Schefflera that was my daughters. She passed away and I want to save her plant, I feel as it is part of her. Thanks for this information you provide so well. The plant I am treating for scale but because of its importance to me I want to propagate it. Bless you
Thank you for sharing and I am sorry for your loss. 🌹 This plant seems to be a magnet to scale insects, because I used to have scale on this plant too. I do have another video on how to treat it against scale, have you checked that also? Then maybe you can try to save the whole plant as well.
I will look to find that video and treat the scale, such a relentless bug. I did wash some with rubbing alcohol. I am glad I came across your page, bless you.@@PlantYes
Thank you thank you thank you, my Schefflera Plant has two stalks and is 7 feet tall. I knew I needed to do something because both stocks are now touching the ceiling with their leaves, but I was afraid to hurt my plant. I rescued it from a very bad caretaker you might say (( my ex-wife )) I have been nurturing it and it is now thriving wonderfully, but I really would like to see it grow side branches instead of simply growing straight up to the sky. Thank you for your video, now I feel more confident in what to do and how to actually replant the part I cut off and continued its generation of life. This plant If I had to estimate is probably over 20 years old and has been very abused in its younger days, I'm surprised it's even still alive From the poor life it had before I showed up Anyways thank you.
@@PlantYes Thank you, you are so very kind to respond. I do enjoy my plants and they bring me much joy when I see them thriving. I guess I'm the happiest around animals and plants, we are their caretakers and should always be striving to do good by them. Stay blessed and keep safe. Danny
Perfect explanation and easy-to-understand visual how-to. You'll probably laugh at this, but I got my Scheffleria maybe ten years ago in a Mother's Day Gift Basket. I live in Florida and planted it in the ground - now it is about 10-ft or more wide and about 14-ft wide. I just let it be. The thing is, I cut it back for the first time and decided since it looks so pretty and healthy that I'd like to have a couple of plant babies. Yours was by far the best video on how to take a cutting - well, actually I just put the cuttings in water outside but left on all the leaves - so I guess I will strip them and try to find a big vase or two until roots appear. Thank you again - great video! Subscribed!
I did not laugh at it, it's great to read where you got your plant from. Mine was from a plant trading ;) It was sooo small at first. It is best to remove the leaves that touch the water, to prevent rot and expose the tissue that can make roots. Do not strip away all the leaves. Good luck! And let me know if you need any help!
Thank you for the great video, very helpful! Can you explain about the auxin a bit more and how cutting the top helped the side branches to grow? I’m not sure I fully understand that. I am subscribing!!
Hi! So basically the plant hormone auxin is produced in the top of the plant. And when you take of the top, the ratio auxin to cytokinine changes. Now cytokinine is more in the plant than auxin, and cytokinine causes branching from the nodes.
What do you mean with that it is usually twice fold? I haven't heard the term "lead shoot" before, usually it is either shoot apex or terminal bud. The process I describe is called apical dominance.
So if I want to direct the growth hormones down the plant, I should not just cut the top of the plant but some of the lower nodes as well? Interesting. I wouldn't have cut the lower branches, but now I shall. Cheers
Cutting of the lower branches is not needed. I just took of those leaves because of some pest damage. But because the nodes were exposed, that is were the new branches have formed.
I bought my schefflera and when repotting i let it grow a bit taller and now I want to make it a bit more fuller at bottom, so I can cut off some leafes and from that nodes where i cut them off starts to grow more leafes than one that it used to be there?
I would try to pull the leaves from the lower parts, so that the full node is exposed. The new leaves will only grow from that part when apical dominance is broken, so the top needs to be removed as well.
