Beginner Gardening: Mail Order Dieffenbachia-how can I help this plant!, 2 by dead_thumb

dead_thumb wrote:
I ordered a beautiful Dieffenbachia online. It came very well packaged, and arrived 3 days after I ordered it. It is quite tall, and has several shoots that look like they could be repotted in their own pots. A couple of the leaves look a little yellow, could be stress from being shipped. It also has flowers on it or seed pods or something which I have tried to show in the photo. I haven't done anything with it except set the small pot in a larger pot to prevent it from falling over because it is very top heavy. As you can see i'm holding it up in these pictures. I have several questions:

1) It was listed as Memoria Corsii Dieffenbachia. Is this the same as Tiki? Pics look similar.

2) Does it have any special requirements?

3) Should I re-pot? Pot looks very small to me and definitely cannot stand on it's own. It is a 4" pot.

4) If or when I re-pot should I separate it into two pots? And if so what size pots should I use?

I am very bad with plants. I love them to death. I am not going to do anything with this plant until I get some advice because I want very much to keep it alive. The only plant I can seem to keep alive is a nerve plant that is in my bathroom, and from what I understand those are not the easiest! Maybe there's hope for me yet!

Thank you for your time!