Schefflera Care Guide

Schefflera plants, also known as Umbrella Plants are quite scenic plants if you ask me, they are often used for trees or bushes in warm places like Curaçao (I actually saw a huge land hermit crab on the wall next to a Schefflera bush in Curaçao), used for plantscaping and are just nice houseplants in general. My mom is obsessed with them, but for some reason they don't spark my interest that much anymore. Don't get me wrong, they're still beautiful plants though!

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FLOWERS:

Schefflera rarely bloom indoors, but if grown in the right conditions, they might give you a flower!

They have really unique flowers, it's like multiple tentacles with really small, pretty and vibrant flowers growing in clusters along those tentacle-like flower stalks.

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WATERING:

Schefflera is the defenition of "Watering Flexibility". Really! It doesn't mind if you forget to water for a week or two, but loooooves being thorougly watered. Water once a week and it'll be thriving, water twice a month and it'll be fine.

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LIGHT REQUIREMENTS:

Again, super flexible plant but like most houseplants, they do best in bright-indirect light.

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PROPAGATION:

 Take a stem cutting preferably with a few leaves, remove the lower leaves, put in water and wait for it to root. Could take a while. I've heard people saying you can propagate these by leaf and tried 3 times, doesn't work😅.

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MEDIUMS:

I don't reccomend putting this one in an extremely chunky soil mix because it can be quite unstable, but mine did really well ina regular soil mix with perlite and leca.