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Oct 14, 2016 11:58 AM CST
Name: Ren
(Zone 7a)
Hi everyone! I'm new! Smiling Need some help with my baby!

I got this plant in January - it was a part of a funerary arrangement for my grandmother, so it's very special to me. I have no idea what it is, but I'm pretty pleased that I've managed to keep it alive for almost ten months already. Though I wonder if I'm doing it right? You see, it looks very healthy, but it doesn't even look like the same plant that I got almost a year ago!

The pictures - the one with the pink flowers is how it appeared when I first got it. Big, darker green leaves, tons of tiny pink flowers. I'm not as concerned about its current lack of flowers as I know that's seasonal and assumed it's winter-flowering. But it's... enormous now. It's gotten so tall. The leaves look completely different. I think if it gets much bigger, I'll need to re-pot it again in a floor planter instead of keeping it on the windowsill.
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Should I be pruning it? I'm terrified to try. I don't mind if it's big, and I don't even mind if it never flowers, as long as it lives, I just don't want to mess it up.

Oh, as an add on - at one point, a small branch was knocked off the lower tiers of the plant, and it appeared healthy, so I put it in water for a couple weeks, it developed roots, and now it looks like I have a successful cutting? It's got that bend in the stem from where it rested on the bowl when it was in water, but when I potted it, I pointed it straight up, so it's not falling over or anything, it's just a funny shape. Since potting it, it's gone straight up (also, hence chopsticks in case it need support??).

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