can you fuse schefflera trunks - S. arboricola "moon drop" variegated!
Found this fun variegated schefflera that I think is an exotic angel patented variety. It looks to have 5 or even 6 separate plants in the tiny pot. If I remove leaves from lower trunks, and repot with trunks touching and wraped in plastic (with long fibered sphagnum around the outside?) will the trunks fuse?
Also, I guess it isn't a new cultivar, but never saw this type of variegated scheff before. I hope with good light the variegation will increase some, it seems fairly unstable.
Daniel
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Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
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rooftopbklyn (zone 7a)
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoThx for the advice, both of you!
Tiffany, my main inspiration for the idea is a ton of stuff from GardenWeb member petrushka re: ficus. And I've read some of al's threads on the topic as well.
Also, I had forgot inosculation, it's a word I learned from you (via GardenWeb) :) I do enjoy words like that, will try not to forget this time.
It's not about just inosculation for me, but this particular plant since I ended up with so many (tropicals are often such a deal!). Now it's a mission.
So there were 6 plants shoved into a shallow 4 inch pot, moved them to 2 6 inch pots for the summer (both still quite full), hope they gain some height this season (will be outside as soon as they recover from repotting a bit) and maybe next year I'll attempt insoculation. Could probably have used more pots, didn't have enough. Plenty of space for roots for now.
Used a combination of pine bark and pumice (about 50/50), with "some" turface thrown in. Because that's what I had...
Daniel
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