OK... I both snipped and didn't snip. The three I was considering pruning when I started this thread, I decided not to prune. The side branches were doing well on their own, and I'm curious how they'll develop on their own. Here are two of them:
They are just under 6" tall right now. I re-potted them so they'd have more room for growth.
I did decide to prune these two:
They had small branches started that seemed to be going nowhere. Here is the after:
I learned a lesson here. Re-pot first, then prune. Re-potting a newly pruned seedling that has a big bubble of sticky sap sitting on top of the fresh cut, while trying to not get that sap all over my hands and not get dirt onto the fresh cut, was a pain. Much simpler when you re-pot first!
The cut tops were dipped in Rootone and were set aside to dry and callous a few days before potting up. They are in the pot by the mother plant only long enough to take the photo,
