Now I'm torn. To pot or not pot, lol! Maybe these pictures will help decide. Got the cutting in late January and now it's late May. One piddly root and two leaves at the top after 4 months!
I was told about 2 months ago by several members of my family to give up on it. It was almost comical, because they acted like I was torturing it by keeping it. I almost did pitch it once, but didn't. Then I noticed that the top seemed to be getting a bright green, so I thought it might still have a chance. Decided to read up on it some more and read on some website to add some rooting hormone to the water to keep bacteria from forming. Oddly enough, it was about two weeks after I added the rooting hormone that I noticed the root developing.
Even though the instructions that came with it said to change the water daily, sometimes it was 4-5 days before I did. Maybe that is what hindered its progress. It is a 12" cutting that has been in the same 9" vase since day one.
Thanks Ken and Jill, for the advice on keeping its size manageable and also for how to overwinter it. I do have a set of French doors in my kitchen that would work for keeping it indoors in winter. That part was really concerning me. But it seems like you are saying that I have to take it out of the pot in the fall and store cuttings. I did not know that. I thought I would just bring it indoors and keep it in the pot all winter.
I do have the tag! That is something that I made sure to keep.
