Hi, Mike. My "mother" plant grows approximately 2' per year. I either cut her branches or air-layer them in the spring and then again in the fall, removing those two feet. I have to keep her trimmed down to 7' tall so that I can get her into my enclosed porch each fall, to overwinter there. All my plants that I have obtained by rooting or air-layering have been sold each time they are listed, so I have never been able to keep one of those "pups". Given time, these plants, which are trees, will branch, but I would pinch the tips off each spring and again in the fall to encourage branching if one wanted a bushier plant. I will send you a "tree-mail" about the fiddleleafs. Not good news.
