Alright so backstory- my boyfriend and I found this fiddle on the side of the road with a sign saying free to a good home. We tried to prune the branches with no leaves on them but nothing has happened. 2 of the other 4 branches with leaves are going crazy and popping out new leaves often. The other 2 are sparse. The 2 with tons of leaves are getting HEAVY but we don’t know how to prune it to make it look nice. We never got new growth from the branches we cut off that were leaf-less. We rotated it so the sparse branches are closer to the window, also just picked up a grow light and a stake to help it in the mean time. Any advice is welcome 🙂 also – the foil is to keep our cats out, we had one of the straw-ish? type covers but they destroyed it lol so any better suggestions for that are also welcome. Thank you!!!
by ABDMWB
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If this were my plant, I’d do this a few ways possibly. I’d cut it so that it looks like. 4 pronged y. And then from there, I’d eyeball it and then possibly decide to just make it a stick in a pot. Like a single trunk. Maybe the FLF experts can weigh in with better advice. If you LIKE the way the branches are with the 4 pronged Y, leave em. If any of them look weird, chop chop. They respond to trauma with growth.
Another option is… just cut the big heavy two branches (of course propagate!) and see where it goes from there. That way you have a few leaves for a little photosynthesis action if you like. Ok, that’s it’s. Thank for coming to my Ted talk lol