Have you successfully propagated schefflera arboricola? Was it easy or difficult? How long did it take? Did you root them in water, or some kind of mix?

I've started some cuttings - half of them in water and half of them in a fast-draining mix. The ones in water are in my bathroom. I have one of those glass brick walls on the southern side of my house and that window sill is the best place for rooting cuttings.

For the ones in mix, I used rooting hormone. I just started all of them a few days ago, so no activity yet.

I've rooted a lot of things already this year - so much more plant material to work with this year because we had no hard freeze (that's two years in a row now! YAY!)! Normally, everything's frozen back so nothing available for cuttings until May/June. So far, I've rooted tall butterfly pentas, bloodleaf, blue sage, red firespike, purple firespike, kalanchoe (could there be anything easier?) and angel's trumpet (brugmansia). I've made divisions of blue clock vine (thunbergia battiscombei) - what a great plant - and philodendron 'Xanadu'. I've moved/transplanted pups/offsets of Crinum 'Queen Emma', and rain lilies. Same with Philippine violet volunteers and yesterday-today-and-tomorrow (brunfelsia) root suckers. I started another 15 cuttings of the tall pentas today because the last set went so well. It's been a great spring.

Anyway, I'm getting carried away - back to the schefflera. Have you ever rooted it? How did you do it?

Thanks!

Carol in Jacksonville