Beginner Gardening: How do you prune a schefflera (umbrella plant)?, 0 by tapla

tapla wrote:
You don't list your zone or where you live in your user info, which has an impact on when the best time to undertake radical work on indoor trees would be, but generally it's in the month before they would exhibit the most robust period of growth in their growth cycle./ For most, that would be early Jun to late Jul - maybe a week or two into Aug if you're far enough south, (or north, if you're south of the equator). ;o)

Schefflera tolerates heaps of indignity the size of mountains, but poor timing can leave the tree weakened for extended periods, which makes it more vulnerable to insects & disease, so if the roots are really tight, I would pot up again until you can do a full repot next year.

Here is what a (full) repot of a scheff looks like. There will be several pictures and some text to accompany them, so I'll note when the last pic is posted.

There's a story that goes with these pictures.

Once upon a time, a guy from church gave me a plant that he didn't know what to do with. It wasn't too healthy, and had grown way out of reasonable bounds. My intent was to rehab the plant & give it to someone else at church. It looked like this when I got it: