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Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:66416}}

my luck with Schefflera and propagating them has been best done with Air layering.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layering

you can also wrap a section of the plant stem with spagnum moss covered in syran wrap and keep the moss moist, the plant will eventually send roots into moss and you can cut below the root line and plant.

Or you can cut the plant at any level and use a rooting hormone with a nice perilite filled potting soil and try to root it that way.

The only way to get a shef to bud back lower is to cut it where you want it to grow multiple heads from. I've seen larger trees grow new heads on their trunks... but i haven't had that kind of luck.

I've also heard that if you make a V cut on the stem (not all the way through the plant just on the outer skin) that that will force a new head to bud from the cut... I have tried this on big umbrella types but never on the smaller types... It worked.

I wish you goodluck!

You can't really make it how you want it, that's not how it grows, it really does tend to keep lots of leaves at its top.