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Message: [QUOTE="treeguy, post: 163904, member: 7026"] It's pretty leggy. Houseplants should be only as tall as they can hold themselves upright without a post. Chop off the top at about where you would like the new growth to start. Drench the soil with an indoor-friendly [URL='https://www.gardensalive.com/product/plant-guardian-houseplant-insecticidal-soap-2817']horticultural oil and/or insecticide[/URL] and watch it like a hawk for renewed critter activity and do it again every time they reappear. Try to pull the whole thing out of the pot and see if the roots are circling the pot. If so, repot and remove 60% of the heavy anchor roots in favor of retaining lots of hairy feeder roots. It doesn't look like it has grown enough to be potbound, but without a history, who knows? For the future, it should grow two or more stems if you cut it off now below all the foliage. It will have growth spurts from time to time. When it has a rest period in-between growth spurts there will be an obvious pointy terminal bud on all stems that you will cut off. When it enters the next growth period, that will make each stem put out two buds that will grow shorter branches. Over time you will have a bushier, shorter plant. Any time you want a branch to grow longer than bushier, don't cut that bud and subsequent growth will be just an extension of that branch. Feed it any brand liquid houseplant when it is growing but just water in the quiet periods. Enjoy! [/QUOTE]