Abstract

The use of rooting hormones is important and appropriate for the rooting of Schefflera arboricola. This study was conducted at Palestine Technical University, Kadoorie (PTUK) in 2020 to find out the optimum hormone rooting on the cuttings of Schefflera arboricola. Three treatments with four replicates were used in a fully randomized system. Compared to the regulated cuttings, all the used hormones improved rooting. In most cases best rooting results were obtained with Schefflera arboricola cutting treated with T8 powder as follows: the effect of T8 hormone average values for the three stages (i.e., after 15, 23 and 30 days) were 8.5, 12.5 and 18.1 g, respectively, while for CFP gel hormone values were 3.3, 6.1 and 9.6 g, compared to the control values 1, 1.8 and 3.7 g. It could be concluded that the powder hormones were more efficient than the liquid ones.