Beginner Gardening: How do you prune a schefflera (umbrella plant)?, 1 by rubyw

rubyw wrote:
Okay, back with pictures. I won't be offended if you tell me that I need to re-take the pictures because I didn't realize when taking these that so much green was going to show up and make it hard to get a good look at the plants themselves. I had forgotten that I actually have two of these plants.

As you can see, both have developed areas that I now know are from reaching for the sun with the stalk being quite long at the bottom of the tallest one. The smaller of the plants has a bare spot about midway up which is all stalk too.

If you are able to tell from the following pictures, what would your plan of action be? Thanks Al.

Ruby