She is about 6 years old and I have been selling her babies for years by taking cuttings and starting them in water. I also have a friend who has one of her babies that has grown into a really large plant and she keeps bringing me cuttings she started. They are very easy to propagate and I think one of the reasons she is so big is that she has been trimmed so many times because over the years taking cuttings. These plants are so under rated when it comes to houseplants. They are tough and take very little attention as you already know. They are slow growers but some of my babies bloom before they are very old. This old girl sat on the bottom shelf beside her babies getting afternoon sun at times, watered regularly until this year she got too big for the shelf so I put her on her own little table near her babies of course and she gets only filtered light all day. This is how she responded to that filtered light. She blooms all the time. I keep my shade cloth on the GH all the time to prevent burning. The sun is just too hot at times for the plants I grow.
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