Thanks, everyone, for the answers. I'm trying to catch up after being offline for a while after posting this. I've decided to just leave them be this time. They are sort of interesting to look at. I always have to learn about plants and one way I've always done that is let them do their thing and see what happens. Then modify that if I need to. It was just in the back of my mind that they more or less finished growing after blooming and I think I had that part wrong. The variety in question is the cultivar 'Scarlet O'Hara'. After this photo the leaves got battered a bit with wind and hail, but new leaves are coming up by those bloom stalks. Also there are a lot of smaller growing points making smaller leaves. It's certainly been receiving enough moisture lately. What do you feed them? I wouldn't have thought it needed any feed yet since it's just beginning growth and is in new potting soil. It has been remarkably cool for this area, but the heat will come soon enough.
Swayback said:I've heard your supposed to cut em out, but really don't see much, if any difference, I'm not very experienced with them compared to others here.
Constant heat, moisture and fertilizer will indeed help things along, they're hungry little plants.
They do not like to dry out much!
I have trouble finding the right spot for them, bright but not direct light...
That's a hard one for me to come up with.
Do you know what kind you have?
It might help others give better info, some are vastly different than others!
