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I remember 'Ruthie' from numerous posts :) She's beautiful. The nodes appear to be there on the stem, Kelley. 'Kassandra' is like 'Ruthie' in that she don't have much of active nodes on the lower stem. I had to cut her halfways in 2006. That helped activate the nodes resulting in three good branches. If lucky, you should also be able to make it sucker from the root crown, but I don' t dare to recommend it as there always is the risk that it won't work for all plants. Maybe I was just lucky. Once I had to cut 'Ida' down to the root crown as she had aquired a local fungus problem. I thought I had lost her, but then she started shooting from the callus portion in between the bark and the stem core.

Burgle, I am glad that your patio trees have started to sprout leaves again. Do you know, how much I envy you three living in Florida and California LOL Your plants seem to accomplish in a short time, what seem to take forever here in zone 7. I also grow 'Apricot Queen' but it did not flower last season, so it is great to look at your picture and see, what it look like. It the one in the close up photo 'Ecuador Pink'?