Indoor schefflera houseplant with glossy umbrella-shaped leaflets

Schefflera Plant Care: Light, Water, Pruning, and Leaf Drop

If your schefflera is dropping leaves, yellowing, leaning, or suddenly declining, this guide is built to help you solve the problem in the order that prevents avoidable plant loss: roots first, light second, temperature and drafts third, pests fourth, then pruning or repotting last. Most indoor failures happen when owners stack the wrong fixes on top of the wrong diagnosis. The practical baseline is simple: bright filtered light, thorough watering followed by moderate drying, steady warmth, and fast inspection of the leaf undersides when symptoms begin. The hard part is not knowing the rules. It is knowing which rule matters first when the plant looks bad. ...

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