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Re: My schefflera

On Monday, September 15, 1997 8:04 AM, Heather Grant 
[SMTP:hgrant@spicer.com] wrote:
> My umbrella plant (that hard to spell sheffelara thing) was five long 
sticks
> with tufts of leaves at the top.  So I took the longest, ugliest stick 
and
> cut if off at the ground.  Two leafy sticks sprouted in from the stump.
> Before I started cutting off the other sticks, we moved.  The plant gets
> more light now, and the other sticks got new leaves all the way up and 
down
> them.  The moral of the story is:  if I can't kill it, no one can.  Good
> luck Tom!
>

Thanks to all for the advice.  This is exactly what I wound up doing.  Then 
I cut the rest of that nasty stalk into 2-inch lengths, dipped the lower 
part in rootone, and planted them in a wet half-and-half mixture of 
vermiculite and potting soil.  Then I covered them with a bag and put them 
in a sunny window.  The top 16 inches of this scheff was doing okay, so I 
just dipped it in the hormone, and stuck it into the ground next to the 
remains of the original plant.  Now it looks fantastic, but I don't know 
how long those leaves will stay with no roots to support them.

My next question is how long should I give those "cane cuttings" to get 
enough roots to transplant?  I'm wary of just opening the bag and yanking. 
 Sorry if I'm being dumb; I truly have no clue about this stuff.

Thanks,
Tom
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