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RainGazer wrote:
Hi all! Thanks for asking about this plant. :o)

I hung it outside to see what it would do if I let it continue to trail out of the pot. I didn't have time to make a totem of sorts for it, sooo... It had been hanging in a forgotten corner of a greenhouse in FL, so I figured it would do alright outside here. It's putting out some new leaves, burgundy with pink, because it's getting a bit of sun. The shoot coming out the top was a completely bare stem. I nicked it, at the suggestion of another DGer, and you can see it's putting out new growth up there now. I might try nicking the longer stems, just to see if I could get them to fill out a bit. This one puts out MUCH larger leaves than my other 'Pink Princess'.

I know it doesn't have the beautiful "show plant" look that most of you try to grow (and which I'd like to achieve with my other 'PP'), but I'm actually enjoying watching it grow like it is. If nothing else, it's different! LOL