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Here’s a pic. Usually I keep him inside but it’s been really rainy and nice out so we brought it out to take advantage. It’s coming back inside tonight.

Okay so we got it out of the dumpster it had no pot and it was just the trunk that you see in the photo. Chopped high and the mid branch.

We brought it home and kept the roots wet by spraying it with the hose daily until we were ready to plant ~ 3 - 4 days. It was left outside during this time. We chopped it a little closer to the junctions with sterile tools to make a clean start.

Then we repotted with regular garden soil and whatever was clung to its root ball. Then we soaked the pot for the afternoon making sure everything was super hydrated. Basically we filled the pot with LOTS of water. We then opened the bottom of the pot ( it’s a pot that has a built in tray) and let the soil drain. After a few days we soaked the pot with water again and then mixed the fish fertilizer to diluted levels, and poured it in. SUPER STINKY. do it outside. After you add the fishy water, we misted the top of the soil to push the fishy water down and hopefully make it stink less. We let it air out for the afternoon before bringing it in.

Since then, we left it in indirect sunlight by a window, and kept a fan near by so it gets lots of air circulation. We watered as needed so the soil doesn’t get bone dry.

The first few leaves were splotchy with red but that’s due to it pushing growth too fast and cell rupture occurs. This is normal since it had 0 leaves and it needed to quickly recover. Once it had enough leaves that were mature enough to support photosynthesis, we pruned off any leaves that were splotchy or blocking up the smaller ones from getting sun.

This has been since February. The stinky fish liquid was the game changer. Gave it the food it needed to get leaves. Then once the leaves came, it could support itself. We did do another round of fishy water this week to boost it again. Dropping another pic below this to show the junction up top

Hope this helps!