Alan: That is a nice looking Dracaena you bought today and I must say $11.00 is an amazing price! I have a similar one, can't remember what the label said so I'm not sure if it's Dracaena deremensis or D. fragrans or D. reflexa ... I get confused with some of them, LOL. Mine got tall and lanky so I lopped the top off and stuck it in the soil today. It hasn't done well for me probably because it was in a corner of the deck behind a chair and was neglected. I'm hoping to be able to save it.
I've grown Dracaena marginata for years and had a really tall one that ended up bending over when it reached the roof of the screened pool enclosure a few years back ... I finally ended up chopping the top off and then a couple of years ago planted it in the ground. It is one of the easiest Dracaena's in my opinion, it takes a lot of neglect! The plant in my photo's below survived our past two freezing winters and looks ratty right now but it survives still. I'm contemplating digging it back up and putting it in a container again. I have some small ones in containers and some cuttings that rooted and are just putting out a couple of leaves. I wish I had a picture of the big one when it was bending over and growing out sideways but unfortunately when my laptop crashed a year or so ago I lost lots of pictures.
This is it in summer 2008 before I planted it in the ground:
And, this past April, it was just a couple of skinny sticks with few leaves:
So, I chopped the tops off, and today ... slow growing, but it's growing:
