I was looking for my 1st plant my co-worker handed me a plant he said its dying so its good practice, Fred (Schefflera actinophylla) is so huge and beautiful now less than 6mths and he's 5x the size. but thanks to your video i now know im under watering him.
I’ve got several some as bonsai and some in larger planters variegated and solid. Found a sad dry leggy Schefflera a couple weeks ago sitting on the roadside amongst some storm debris. (Hurricane Sally roughed us up a good bit) anyway the once homeless Schefflera is now on its way to being a nice bonsai. Good luck with yours👍
I have watched several videos and THIS ONE is the best I have found to explain the Schefflera actinophylla (sp). I have had trouble with mine for a while and you explained it very well, Thank you!
I grow mine in full sun in containers. I haven't seen any sunburn ever. Even my cacti got sunburn but not the umbrella tree. It's really tough tree 🌳 And I don't sweat on the watering too. I'll water it if it doesn't rain for a month or so. Really easy plant to not care about.
Your video is put together perfectly. However, as much as I enjoyed everything you had to say, because I truly believe it was extremely informative, I would have also preferred that you show close-ups of where you would cut the cuttings. Otherwise thank you so much for sharing.
My Schefflera grows brown spots on some of the leaves. I thought I was watering it too much because it always happens after I water it and when I didn't water it for a while there were no new spots. But then you said they like more water and now I'm confused 😭✋😂
Just bought one at FOODLION for $11.00...plan on repotting it and leaving it outside here in North Carolina until next fall, when I’ll bring it inside where I have lots of bright light ...great video...BYW, it’s in a four-gallon pot and fairly large...
I have watched MANY videos this evening and yours is the best I've found. very informative, to the point and I even took notes! thank you much. Do you have videos on helping save them? like root rot issues or sunburned pieces ???
I have always failed with my Arboricola cuttings. In water, they tend to rot (and I change the water regularly). And in soil, they just dry out. I hope the leaf rooting method would work. That will be my last resort.
Try putting the cutting in soil and then put the whole thing in a big zip lock bag and blow air into it before closing! I've rooted several rubber trees like that and it provides a very humid environment, never dries out, and roots within a couple weeks! Just set in a place where it gets some sun to stay warm
Can I cut the main down to where branches I think the main Roots is like 4 to 5 ft and it branches maybe about 2 ft from the stem and that's where I want to cut it.
Question: I have a scheflerra actinofolia I've had for about 5-6 years first four years or so it grew beautifully. But the last year or so all of the new leaves don't spread out like fans as they normally would. They come out folded back on their stems and stay that way. What is wrong with it and can I remedy the problem?
It's hard to say exactly as there can be alot of variables that effect leaf growth but usually if a plant has grown larger with more leaves it often needs more light in order to sustain the extra growth so upping the lighting might help, however if the plant hasn't had a repot with new within the last year or two this might also be the issue as soil eventually runs out of nutrients after a year or two, repoting in spring or autumn is recommended not winter as the plant is mostly dormant in winter and is best not disturbed, the only other thing that usually causes this sort of issue is pests so look closely for mealybugs or scale, if you find any you can use a product called white oil spray to treat it, best of luck with your plant.
I have 2 mini wiener dogs , so anything 2 feet off the ground is safe unless it drops a leaf , I try to keep all the plants pushed back on shelves ect so if they drop a leaf it land on the shelf instead of the floor.
I have an umbrella tree , 45 years old . Loves the cold , very little care it grows leaves but only one stock , will not branch out so I can't get cuttings it's about 7 feet tall .. how can I get it to branch out??? Please ... Thank you !! ♥️
Oof, wish I'd watched this video 2 days ago! I just got my variegated one, like yours, maybe 2 weeks ago. Yesterday I noticed a strange fungus in the soil, smelled like mushrooms, so I repotted it all fresh. I broke off 2 leaves in the process and just left them outside like a fool lol! 😭
Can you propagate a stem that has no leaves on it? I had my schefflera that looks like the one on the right, lose most of its leaves from heat damage….lost my AC in summer for a few weeks. She’s growing some new leaves, so overall still healthy, but wondering what to do with all the stems that are bare.
If you cut off the top of an actual tree, will the tree you cut from continue to grow? Or will it grow more off the side of the tree? I had one with 3 trees in one pot, let them grow outside on a covered porch over the summer, 2 took off and are 2ft tall, the 3rd turned brown from the bottom and is working it’s way up the tree. I’m not sure what to do with it currently. None of the remaining leaves on it look healthy enough to propagate as they have all begun to wilt. Should I try to dig or pull it completely out of the pot? I don’t want the dead plant matter to rot in the pot and affect the 2 healthy trees in the pot. But I was wondering if I did propagate the tops of the healthy trees in the future, how will the trees continue growing, straight up or out to the sides. I may try to propagate a healthy leaf to replace the tree that died. Just never a lot of info about the plant (scheflerras in particular, and they are currently my favorite) after you’ve cut it.
New grows will sprout out the side next to the wound you have cur the direction of the growth depends on where the lights coming from as it will grow towards the light
Just purchased a variegated baby, totally healthy but a lot of roots seem to be on top of the soil. I know she doesn't need a repot, but do you think its just a sloppy packing job? I don't want to shock her coming from the nursery to my home and repotting, any suggestions??
If you can pull it out of the pot and see more roots than soil then you can re pot it but it's best to let it settle in for at least two or three weeks and get adjusted to its new environment before re potting
What should I do n the fall/winter months? Mine was growing beautifully last summer. It started dying n the winter. I'm trying 2 ressurect it now. I repotted it & changed the soil. The old soil had a moldy smell & was rock hard around the sides.
Sounds like your soil had a fungal problem so if you have changed the soil im theory it should be alright but don't expect alot of growth during winter as they tend to go dormant.
Can I plant this in leca?? I’m trying to convert majority of my house plants to leca and I was just wondering if this would be a good candidate for it since it’s a tropical plant and likes humid environments ☺️
Any tips on stems that grown downward? I care for an elderly lady and have been helping her with her plants.. her umbrella tree looks like it’s having a bad hair day lol. I brought a wooden stake and propped it up better with some twine.. and I’ve been trying to manipulate the downward-growing stems with floral wire and point them in an upward direction.. am I doing this right?
Usually when this happens it's because there isn't enough above lighting as plants grow towards the light and if the sideways lighting is more intense than above lighting this can happen, above lighting is difficult indoors as most people don't have sky lights lol but proping it up with a wooden stake is a good start and if you aren't able to move it somewhere where there's above lighting or mount a grow light above it the only other option is to rotate it every week so the growth is more even but yeah once these trees get bigger it's hard keeping them standing up straight indoors best of luck though 🙂
My husband brought home his giant office plant that was already established like that, four stalks 3ft in length with many various other stalks too but those big ones only one was kind of going upwards all the rest were were going sideways and still are 7 years later and we just moved into a much smaller house where this guy now fills up my art studio (he wasn’t a fan of the unheated full sun no heat in WIsconsin sunroom over winter-but didn’t drop a leaf unlike in my bay window at my last house it would drop every leaf each winter and I’d put out on East facing patio up against the house and it returned full and bushier than before. But NOW I must prune fella back. I should have pruned those back when I got them but I was too chicken. I was hoping your video would address that. Because they do get beefy and out of control and that’s why people get rid of them. I have no room for his monstrosity at the new place. He is always up in my business because I’m stepping over one of his many parallel limbs reaching to all four corners of the room😂.
Hello, very nicely explained. Do you know if a thick hardwood cutting of the umbrella tree would root? I found an big broken branch and am planning to try and propogate a 4 inch thick cutting.
@@Amanda-fo2bc hello, there are 4 to 5 sprouts of new growth. But it's been like that for more than 2 weeks now. I don't see the buds growing at all. Hoping it will grow with more time :)
Im aware they can live in full sun i have ones outside myself however im refering to umbrella trees being kept as indoor plants and moving an indoor plant straight into full sun outside usually is to much of an extreme change to fast for them to handle however I have both species outside and both are also growing well because I put them outside in late winter so it wasn't to hot straight away and they've been able to adjust as the seasons warm in time saying that I've had them burn and dry up in the past when I haven't done this.
Hey man do you still have your green tree frogs? And if so could you make a video on how to keep them what your tank/terrarium looks like I’m enjoying the plants as well!!!
Thank you for this video! I was gifted a huge schefflera stem cutting (like pretty much an entire tree) and was told to just stick the stem in water. Do you think that's a bad idea?
A node is on the main stem where leaves grow from or roots can grow if cut but as far as I know the butt end of a leaf stem isn't technically a node which is why leaf propagation only works sometimes but I could be wrong 😁
Do you keep cat grass or any other cat friendly herbs? I have 3 cats and they don't touch my houseplants, and they are like all over my floor, over 100! But because I have cat grass in their own container, they know to only go to that! They do occasionally munch my Boston fern but to be fair, it's like 2 feet from their grass.
I was looking for my 1st plant my co-worker handed me a plant he said its dying so its good practice, Fred (Schefflera actinophylla) is so huge and beautiful now less than 6mths and he's 5x the size. but thanks to your video i now know im under watering him.
I found an umbrella tree in the alley today that was slowly dying and this helped me so much thank you!
I’ve got several some as bonsai and some in larger planters variegated and solid. Found a sad dry leggy Schefflera a couple weeks ago sitting on the roadside amongst some storm debris. (Hurricane Sally roughed us up a good bit) anyway the once homeless Schefflera is now on its way to being a nice bonsai. Good luck with yours👍
I found mine sitting on the curb with the trash. It's over six feet tall
I have watched several videos and THIS ONE is the best I have found to explain the Schefflera actinophylla (sp). I have had trouble with mine for a while and you explained it very well, Thank you!
I grow mine in full sun in containers. I haven't seen any sunburn ever. Even my cacti got sunburn but not the umbrella tree. It's really tough tree 🌳 And I don't sweat on the watering too. I'll water it if it doesn't rain for a month or so. Really easy plant to not care about.
love it struggling with my larg schefflera at the moment. i think it needs repotting was given to me 3 years ago... love it.. not giving up
Well explained between the differences! Thanks from Canada, mate! :)
So lovely :) Thank you for your wonderful video.
Very helpful and easy to follow. Thanks!
OMG your accent!! It's just plain 🔥!!!!! IM IN LOVE!!
Thank you for advices and information. 🙏 I just bought one ( Amate ) today . I hope plant will be happy in my household.
Your video is put together perfectly. However, as much as I enjoyed everything you had to say, because I truly believe it was extremely informative, I would have also preferred that you show close-ups of where you would cut the cuttings. Otherwise thank you so much for sharing.
My Schefflera grows brown spots on some of the leaves. I thought I was watering it too much because it always happens after I water it and when I didn't water it for a while there were no new spots. But then you said they like more water and now I'm confused 😭✋😂
Watching from KS, US! Purchased my first Schefflera Arboricola a few days ago. Thank you for the helpful information!
Just bought one at FOODLION for $11.00...plan on repotting it and leaving it outside here in North Carolina until next fall, when I’ll bring it inside where I have lots of bright light ...great video...BYW, it’s in a four-gallon pot and fairly large...
Haha this is exactly what I’m doing now
Awesome
Luvv the sound of ur birds😀
I have drafty windows.Will my umbrella plant survive some of the cool draft.
Thanks
Very informative
I have watched MANY videos this evening and yours is the best I've found. very informative, to the point and I even took notes! thank you much. Do you have videos on helping save them? like root rot issues or sunburned pieces ???
thanks for the video, it really helped me a lot :)
I have always failed with my Arboricola cuttings. In water, they tend to rot (and I change the water regularly). And in soil, they just dry out. I hope the leaf rooting method would work. That will be my last resort.
Best of luck hope it roots up for you
Try putting the cutting in soil and then put the whole thing in a big zip lock bag and blow air into it before closing! I've rooted several rubber trees like that and it provides a very humid environment, never dries out, and roots within a couple weeks! Just set in a place where it gets some sun to stay warm
I also dip the cutting in rooting hormone b4 putting in soil
What is the name of that white powder you used for the stem before you put it in water?
Rooting powder
Thank you! Very informative - appreciate it.
Can I cut the main down to where branches I think the main Roots is like 4 to 5 ft and it branches maybe about 2 ft from the stem and that's where I want to cut it.
Hello Thank you for sharing
I bought the dwarf umbrella plant like 3 weeks ago and it’s losing its leaves😢
Question: I have a scheflerra actinofolia I've had for about 5-6 years first four years or so it grew beautifully. But the last year or so all of the new leaves don't spread out like fans as they normally would. They come out folded back on their stems and stay that way. What is wrong with it and can I remedy the problem?
It's hard to say exactly as there can be alot of variables that effect leaf growth but usually if a plant has grown larger with more leaves it often needs more light in order to sustain the extra growth so upping the lighting might help, however if the plant hasn't had a repot with new within the last year or two this might also be the issue as soil eventually runs out of nutrients after a year or two, repoting in spring or autumn is recommended not winter as the plant is mostly dormant in winter and is best not disturbed, the only other thing that usually causes this sort of issue is pests so look closely for mealybugs or scale, if you find any you can use a product called white oil spray to treat it, best of luck with your plant.
Really useful, informative video. Thank you :)
I have 2 mini wiener dogs , so anything 2 feet off the ground is safe unless it drops a leaf , I try to keep all the plants pushed back on shelves ect so if they drop a leaf it land on the shelf instead of the floor.
I have an umbrella tree , 45 years old . Loves the cold , very little care it grows leaves but only one stock , will not branch out so I can't get cuttings it's about 7 feet tall .. how can I get it to branch out??? Please ... Thank you !! ♥️
Oof, wish I'd watched this video 2 days ago! I just got my variegated one, like yours, maybe 2 weeks ago. Yesterday I noticed a strange fungus in the soil, smelled like mushrooms, so I repotted it all fresh. I broke off 2 leaves in the process and just left them outside like a fool lol! 😭
Double wammy, mushrooms are a good sign
Can i notch a stalk in the larger one to start getting more branches? I have 2 woody stalks and they are emplty All growth is at toop
Can you propagate a stem that has no leaves on it? I had my schefflera that looks like the one on the right, lose most of its leaves from heat damage….lost my AC in summer for a few weeks. She’s growing some new leaves, so overall still healthy, but wondering what to do with all the stems that are bare.
If you cut off the top of an actual tree, will the tree you cut from continue to grow? Or will it grow more off the side of the tree? I had one with 3 trees in one pot, let them grow outside on a covered porch over the summer, 2 took off and are 2ft tall, the 3rd turned brown from the bottom and is working it’s way up the tree. I’m not sure what to do with it currently. None of the remaining leaves on it look healthy enough to propagate as they have all begun to wilt. Should I try to dig or pull it completely out of the pot? I don’t want the dead plant matter to rot in the pot and affect the 2 healthy trees in the pot. But I was wondering if I did propagate the tops of the healthy trees in the future, how will the trees continue growing, straight up or out to the sides. I may try to propagate a healthy leaf to replace the tree that died. Just never a lot of info about the plant (scheflerras in particular, and they are currently my favorite) after you’ve cut it.
New grows will sprout out the side next to the wound you have cur the direction of the growth depends on where the lights coming from as it will grow towards the light
@@reptiplantworks2294 awesome thanks! That gives me what I need to know to have more control.
I have the variegated umbrella plant. I have it beside an east-facing window. I water it once a week. The leaves are turning brown and falling off.
Are the leaves brown and dry or brown and soft
@@reptiplantworks2294 dry
Sounds like its getting burnt ive found my umbrellas do best in bright Indirect light with preferably no direct sun if possible
@@reptiplantworks2294 Thanks!!
I will move it to another location.
Good luck hope it gets better 😁
Just purchased a variegated baby, totally healthy but a lot of roots seem to be on top of the soil. I know she doesn't need a repot, but do you think its just a sloppy packing job? I don't want to shock her coming from the nursery to my home and repotting, any suggestions??
If you can pull it out of the pot and see more roots than soil then you can re pot it but it's best to let it settle in for at least two or three weeks and get adjusted to its new environment before re potting
javalina love to eat this plant. u helped how to rejuvenate
What should I do n the fall/winter months? Mine was growing beautifully last summer. It started dying n the winter. I'm trying 2 ressurect it now. I repotted it & changed the soil. The old soil had a moldy smell & was rock hard around the sides.
Sounds like your soil had a fungal problem so if you have changed the soil im theory it should be alright but don't expect alot of growth during winter as they tend to go dormant.
@@reptiplantworks2294 Thanks man! How do I prevent the fungus from returning?
Mix perlite in with the soil so it drains better and let the soil dry between watering occasionally
@@reptiplantworks2294 Do I have 2 repot the plant again, or can I just add Perlite to the soil?
I repot my plants every year or two but if it isn't due for a bigger pot size you can just change over the soil
Can I plant this in leca?? I’m trying to convert majority of my house plants to leca and I was just wondering if this would be a good candidate for it since it’s a tropical plant and likes humid environments ☺️
So odd... EVERY Google search I find says the opposite that the umbrella DOES absolutely need to dry out between watering....🤷🏽♀️
Any tips on stems that grown downward? I care for an elderly lady and have been helping her with her plants.. her umbrella tree looks like it’s having a bad hair day lol. I brought a wooden stake and propped it up better with some twine.. and I’ve been trying to manipulate the downward-growing stems with floral wire and point them in an upward direction.. am I doing this right?
Usually when this happens it's because there isn't enough above lighting as plants grow towards the light and if the sideways lighting is more intense than above lighting this can happen, above lighting is difficult indoors as most people don't have sky lights lol but proping it up with a wooden stake is a good start and if you aren't able to move it somewhere where there's above lighting or mount a grow light above it the only other option is to rotate it every week so the growth is more even but yeah once these trees get bigger it's hard keeping them standing up straight indoors best of luck though 🙂
My husband brought home his giant office plant that was already established like that, four stalks 3ft in length with many various other stalks too but those big ones only one was kind of going upwards all the rest were were going sideways and still are 7 years later and we just moved into a much smaller house where this guy now fills up my art studio (he wasn’t a fan of the unheated full sun no heat in WIsconsin sunroom over winter-but didn’t drop a leaf unlike in my bay window at my last house it would drop every leaf each winter and I’d put out on East facing patio up against the house and it returned full and bushier than before. But NOW I must prune fella back. I should have pruned those back when I got them but I was too chicken. I was hoping your video would address that. Because they do get beefy and out of control and that’s why people get rid of them. I have no room for his monstrosity at the new place. He is always up in my business because I’m stepping over one of his many parallel limbs reaching to all four corners of the room😂.
Do you ever wonder what could happen under, under an umbrella tree?
Hello, very nicely explained. Do you know if a thick hardwood cutting of the umbrella tree would root? I found an big broken branch and am planning to try and propogate a 4 inch thick cutting.
In theory it should but never tried so can't say for sure
@@reptiplantworks2294 thanks, I've planted the cutting using Rooting hormone and covered it with a poly bag. Hoping for the best:)
@@vipulnair5217 any update?
@@Amanda-fo2bc hello, there are 4 to 5 sprouts of new growth. But it's been like that for more than 2 weeks now. I don't see the buds growing at all. Hoping it will grow with more time :)
I have both of these outside that get full direct sunlight all day and they’re growing at a rapid rate
Im aware they can live in full sun i have ones outside myself however im refering to umbrella trees being kept as indoor plants and moving an indoor plant straight into full sun outside usually is to much of an extreme change to fast for them to handle however I have both species outside and both are also growing well because I put them outside in late winter so it wasn't to hot straight away and they've been able to adjust as the seasons warm in time saying that I've had them burn and dry up in the past when I haven't done this.
The Climate makes a big difference too.
Hey man do you still have your green tree frogs? And if so could you make a video on how to keep them what your tank/terrarium looks like I’m enjoying the plants as well!!!
Yeah i still have them i wanna re do the terrarium at some point as the plants are over grown so when i get around to it ill make a video with them.
reptiworksaquatics cant wait till you redo the terrarium!!
Thank you for this video! I was gifted a huge schefflera stem cutting (like pretty much an entire tree) and was told to just stick the stem in water. Do you think that's a bad idea?
Propagating it in water works fine or in soil it's up to you but they both work
Will it root without the rooting hormone?
Yes it will rooting hormone just speeds up the process
At the end were you snapped off its called a node were roots grow
A node is on the main stem where leaves grow from or roots can grow if cut but as far as I know the butt end of a leaf stem isn't technically a node which is why leaf propagation only works sometimes but I could be wrong 😁
your ego is lying to you
Hello my leaves are falling off like the baby ones
Your not ly. I was just gifted a umbrella tree from friends family 125 yrs old blanked by seed from her grandmother
7:11 😂 why the sudden pause
Think I had a brain fart mid video 😅
My cat eats every plant she can find! I'm so over it, honestly! She completely ruined my fig tree :-(
I know the feeling mine killed so many plants when he was a kitten
Do you keep cat grass or any other cat friendly herbs? I have 3 cats and they don't touch my houseplants, and they are like all over my floor, over 100! But because I have cat grass in their own container, they know to only go to that! They do occasionally munch my Boston fern but to be fair, it's like 2 feet from their grass.