Propagating a Schefflera

We have a very big Schefflera plant in our living room that grows crazy fast and I have to cut off the top branches a couple times a year - one time we came home in the spring to find it making a break for the ceiling, its got SO tall!! We started calling it Seymour...wait a minute, wait a minute - I'm just remembering that I've written about my crazy houseplant before and I need to go find the previous post...

Ok, I was right - and I'm going to repost it today because I have two stems that are ready to be planted, check out the roots that formed in less than 2 months! I literally cut off two stems and put them in a vase of water - nothing else. I'm going to give these cuttings with their fresh roots to my niece so she can grow her own big ol' Seymour Schefflera hahahah!. Pretty cool, huh? And so easy to do...

Here's the other post from last June:

This is very not exciting but thought I'd share what I'm working on today...houseplants. Sometimes you don't get to make fun things that you'd rather work on, and have to do a little maintenance instead hahaha! Boring, but necessary. About once a year I realize that my indoor plants have either outgrown their pots, need some general TLC, or have shot up so high they look like they are making a break for it and trying to burst thru the ceiling (or maybe more like the plant in Little Shop of Horrors that eats people - what's it's name, Seymour? Sydney? Can't remember, I should probably google but I'm busy potting plants and I'm not taking the time since it totally doesn't matter). I'm trimming some back (and if it's a nice plant I put a couple of the longer pieces in water and root it - just let the stem hang out in a glass or vase of water until roots start forming and then plunk it in some dirt, voilà another plant) and if they are shooting off sideways I take twine and a stick (put it in the pot and use as an anchor/support) and tie the side branches up so it's more compact; some just need a bigger pot, and I have a couple that I should throw out but I'm putting them in our screened porch to see if a little summer vacation help them - if they still look bad in a couple months and aren't trying hard enough to earn their way back into the house then out they go. Fair warning ;)

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