Monster Schefflera

[Bob O]

Hi all,

This Monster originated in Fla. and grown by a good friend of mine until I got it just a few years ago. The first pic is how it looked in summer 2010, to give you an idea of scale the boards it is sitting on are standard 5/4 deck boards spaced at one inch.
I repotted it last year into a larger pot and the second pic is last week after I defoliated it. The new pot is 24 inches by 15 with 2.5 inches deep. The base of the plant is 19 inches wide and the height minus foliage is 22 inches. With pot, soil and plant combined it weighs about a hundred pounds. Hope you enjoy,

Bob O

 

[Bob O]

Well for some reason the second picture didn't attach, I'll try again...

 

[mat]

Great old Scheff. I've seen Schefflera like this one doing well with no pot, just sitting on top of a big slab. You can see that their roots have formed like this one's, in some shallow oval or rectangular pot long ago. They seem to do fine with no pot whatsoever after a while. Robert at Dragon Tree has a few of these. Thanks for posting.

 

[edprocoat]

Very nice Scheff ! At first glance it brought me images of some impeneterable jungle forest lining a riverbank like I used to see watching Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

" And now Jim will attempt to enter the overgrowth and find where that crocodile has made its burrough, careful Jim, those jaws can break a human leg in one bite"

ed

 

[tmmason10]

Probably one of the best scheffs that I've seen yet. It reminds me of some of the mangroves I saw on my honeymoon in Domincan Republic this May.

 

[edprocoat]

Probably one of the best scheffs that I've seen yet. It reminds me of some of the mangroves I saw on my honeymoon in Domincan Republic this May.

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There are mangroves like that along the intercoastal waterway from Melbourne Fl. to the Sebastian inlet that I fish every winter. There are mangrove snappers, grass trout and sea trout and black drum, redfish, pompano and flounder and nuisance fish like ladyfish, amber jack, jack crevalle and catfish, which are still fun to catch. the roots are a mess and you can lose some line, but the fish hang out beneath them.

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