Backstory: Mom loves tropical plants. We've had an umbrella tree/schleffara looking thing for a while and it's grown into a weird kinked up vine looking thing, no taper, no anything that makes it pleasant other than that cute bunch of leaves at the top. So I took a piece and I'm now trying to root it so that I can train it as it grows!

It's in a homemade soil I put together from sand and organic materials and processed by way of worm gut, so I'd say it is a wonderful soil to grow just about anything in since it drains well and is full of pow to let the plants grow with vigor. Until that is, I have to slow them down which apparently isn't hard.

I did consider air layering the entire thing and plunking it into the pot it's in with some better soil but the parent plant is mom's and she decides what to do with it. I did ask for the wee bit off to root.

Related, supplementary question: which style would you suggest for this wild looking plant? I mean even the leaves have leaves! Yes I know they are leaflets. My idea is to make an informal upright with two distinct layers of branches like the umbrella style but in the middle a smaller umbrella on top of the larger one. Good idea? Much appreciated from a far-from-expert casual hobbyist (all my knowledge is good for is land things with scales).