Beginner Gardening: Moving a scheflarra, 3 by tapla

tapla wrote:
Root function would be severely impaired by the time the soil temp reaches 105-110*, and 120* is hot enough to kill roots, so I don't have a lot of hope that the plant will arrive in anything but a shambles if exposed to that kind of heat for that long.

Topping the tree isn't the end of the world. It will bounce back from that quite well if it is presently reasonably healthy. This hard pruning included a SEVERE root pruning, and you can see how well the plant bounced back.

Al