Hi Jenn & welcome to Gardenweb! What a great tree! It's kind of confusing but this section where you asked your question isn't the regular spot where it should go. If you put it on this part of the house plants forum, it will get the proper responses. This section is for wacky, off-topic discussions.

Hey, Jenn, you found the right spot. Pic upright below for those who were also seeing it sideways. Yes, you can cut it, yes the cut-off part can be propagated, yes the stump should sprout a new top. It looks like there's enough material there to make several new plants, depending on size of each. Does reading this discussion give you the info you need? 'piercing my ceiling'. Scheffs, Dracs, Ficus, all very similar in pruning/propagation, except for the stuff about Scheffs and Ficus making side branches/'filling out,' doesn't apply to Dracs. There's also timing to consider. When did you have in mind for doing this?

mgates, the stalk that is sprouting near the base indicates that the upper part is dead. The lower part may still be alive. Here is how you may be able to tell. Starting near the top, nick the bark with a sharply pointed knife. If the tissue below is green the stalk is alive and may be able to produce new shoots. If the bark separates easily and the underlying tissue is brown,then the stalk is dead and will not produce any new growth, no matter what you do. Continue to nick the bark downwards until you see green. From that point down the stalk is alive. My suggestion would be to saw off the dead upper portion just above those new shoots. If you can stand the sight of them that low in the container, let them grow. If not, twist the whole stalk clockwise/counterclockwise repeatedly until you snap the (few) roots that anchor it. Remove the whole stalk and carefully slice it up (I use a sharp folding pruning saw...gently) to obtain a disc with one (or two) of those young shoots attached. Set them in a medium that will promote rooting and give them the conditions (moisture control!) to promote rooting. I have found perlite, just barely damp, and a bright shaded location (under an oak tree in the backyard) works very well. After rooting has taken place, lift the plant with as much perlite as possible and place all in a prepared hole in regular potting soil in a suitably sized container. Continue to manage the watering skillfully. My success rate is about 70%.

Some folks do that and there are several threads in the backposts where it's discussed, if you want to do a search at the bottom of the page: I'm too lazy this AM to do it. LOL But take more that one cutting and be sure they've taken before discarding the plant it came from. And yes, it will take successive cuttings to get the timing right so that you have a seedling at the right age to plant outside. Most folks I know don't clone plants b/c they usually want to plant different ones each year. And yes, under grow lights the plants will survive over the winter. But don't expect fruits if you let them get to that stage. Take cuttings earlier than that. Whether it's cost effective for you to do so depends on how much importance you place on having the same variety, meaning, is it a rare one, or a common one that you could raise from seed at the same time you raise all your other seed grown ones. Ray has some that he really wants to clone b'c he started out with a hybrid, I think it was Purple Haze. Carolyn