Thank you everyone for your suggestions. I had no idea I was supposed to be pruning them. I'm not even sure how I would do that at this point. The "large" part in the picture is really only half of the overall plant. Uploading a full picture now. Hopefully you can see this well enough... there's a huge branch on the left that is all connected to one single stem as well... just like on the right. (It looks like you have to click on the image in order to see the entire plant... the preview crops the sides.) Leggy... that's definitely the word for it but I didn't realize that was a bad thing.
When I first got it, it was a tiny cutting that a friend gave me and she had this small trellis in there with it. I never took it out, but now I'm wondering if that made things worse because now if I take it out, I think all the stems will snap from the weight of the branches.
Also, once the plant started to take off, the original cutting died completely. Is that typical? Basically, I'm wondering if I cut this at the break, or even if I cut it into several small pieces, will they all eventually die?
As for light, it seems to be happy by the window... it keeps growing and new leaves keep cropping up on all the stems so I thought the light was good. I'm in Texas and between the heat, the high winds, and all the pests we have, I've never been able to keep any plants alive outside, so I just keep this one inside. But maybe it's not getting enough light? Is that why it's growing so much at the ends but not at the base?
Again, I really appreciate you all taking the time to answer my questions. I never even had any idea what type of plant this was... I was just so happy that it stayed alive for so many years, I figured I didn't want to mess with a good thing. Hehe.
