I'm sorry, I don't have much knowledge on this plant as I've never grown one, but you're right about the sunlight. An East or West window with something infront to diffuse the light is best. The brown edges may also be a sign that the humidity's too low. These plants like some humidity. They also like to be kept somewhat moist, but do let it dry out just a bit between waterings. I also use room temperature water on my plants. It's easier on them as cold/hot water can shock/kill the roots respectively. I would DEFINITELY move it out of that pot with no drainage holes. Drainage holes are an aboslute must must must! You'll know if it needs a bigger pot when you remove it from it's current pot. If there's a mass of roots all curled around the bottom, then it needs a bigger pot, but only move it up an inch or two max. There's slightly different instructions for repotting (putting it back in the same size container) and potting up (putting it in a bigger container). Both are relatively simple once you get the hang of it. What can make it difficult is the plant (large, hanging, delicate...) I'm unsure how difficult this plant is in particular. Hopefully someone else can chime in and help you out some more. Best of luck!

I hope I didn't really screw up... I feel bad I didn't follow the directions properly and may have really messed up this schef. Once I took it out of the large pot, it was not what I expected, as you saw in the photo the root ball was tiny compared to the pot, less than 1/5 of the size of the pot. After examination, the roots in the ball there was (as shown in the photo) were not all that substantial. I think that the roots have been rotting away in this wet slop of a soil that barely drained. I decided I had no choice but to get it out of this soil that it was drowning in. I cleaned off the root ball and put it in the new Turface, Pine Bark, and Perlite gritty mix I just made. All went well, fertilizing and transplanting. I also added a mycorrhizal product to the roots. Then.... perhaps I should skip this part, this is the bad part of my day. I tried to bring it back into the house myself. It had such minimal roots that it didn't hold in the gritty mix that well. It fell out of the pot, down a couple step and hit the ground. Amazingly, It appears to not have suffered any physical damage. I moved the pot in, then brought in the schefflera. I re-planted it in the pot in place. It would not stay standing on it's own, I didn't get it buried quite as deep as I had it when I was outside. All I could think to do was to place some #3 grit around it, thinking the #3 is large enough that it would not cause a problem with it being on the top of the mix. So it is held in place now with the grit. Only time will tell how much damage or perhaps if I am very lucky, good I have caused. Looking on the bright side, perhaps I saved it from upcoming death from root rot and it will like it's new mix despite the trama. I did not prune it and will leave it un pruned until next summer as advised. I have to go apologize to my plant some more. :-( Thanks Jamie

Yovan, one of the two cuttings did not make it, mostly my fault learning. The other cutting is doing very well. No where near the size it should be. I neglected it for 1.5-2 years due to countless life obligations that I could not get away from. June/2017 it was in such bad shape every leaf was curled and dried up to a crisp from not being watered for over a month in very hot temps. My family and I were forced to vacate our home due to an asbestos contamination and were unable to return. When i finally was able to retrieve my tree's and did my best to bring it back and have been taking overly good care of it since. It has completely come back to life, dropped all its old leaves and has grown all new and some. We are now in a new home and I am hoping this spring it will take off and make up for my lack of taking care of it for years! I will try and take a picture of it this evening when I return home.

In my climate, it is difficult to grow decent tomatoes in anything other than a container!! Ground soil stays cool too late in the season and also the portability of containers allows them to be moved and sited to maximize sunlight and reflected heat. And even that limits the varieties that do well to those with a very short (early) harvest season! And to echo dan's comments, since 99% of all potting soils contain minimal plant nutrients, fertilizing weakly should happen immediately and frequently.