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Nov 19, 2016 2:34 PM CST
Name: Baja
Baja California (Zone 11b)
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Water well (until drips come out the bottom of the pot) and then wait to water again until the soil goes almost dry at depth. There is no advantage to allowing the plant to sit around for any extended period bone dry... so there's a happy medium. You can get a sense of when the soil is drying out by sticking your finger (or a chopstick or a moisture meter) in there to tell. The top layer will dry out very fast and not be informative about what's happening underneath. The interval between watering might be a week or two in good strong light.

You cannot provide too much light for this plant indoors. An unobstructed south-facing window would be great this time of year. What tends to happen in low light (and this is the season of low light in Michigan) is the plant grows long and weak and eventually the branches fall over and have to be pruned. So give it all the light you can.

Wait and watch for a while before you entertain the idea of repotting the plant (something you probably would want to do in the spring anyway) or pruning it. The pruning is something you can do any number of different ways, depending on your objective, and the plant will almost always come out fine. Usually you might prune to correct weak sideways growth or top-heavy growth. When one of these is outside in full sun (they can take all-day sun in mild climates, given a gradual stepwise adjustment), it will develop an attractive reddish tinge to the edges of the leaves, and never need pruning.

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