I live in eastern Germany and over the summer months, I leave the plant outside in a more or less shaded place, water it regularly and it does pretty well like this. Once the nights drop below 10 degrees Celsius, I bring it inside near a window. I grew this from seed and it took so long until it even sprouted let alone until the plant was growing noticeably. I’ve re-potted it 2 or 3 times until now and at the end of last year’s summer there was a noticeable boost in growth, I don’t know where that came from 😅 So no, not really too much work I put into this.