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I'm moving from a house where I've had a giant sunroom that I've filled with plants (I think I have 14 or 15), into a one bedroom apartment. I didn't think I'd ever be drastically downsizing, so pruning my plants wasn't something I did. I just kept letting them get bigger and bigger and moving them to bigger pots when they looked like they could use it. Sometimes they definitely did need bigger pots and sometimes they probably didn't and now they're in pots that are unnecessarily big. A few of them are so big I don't know that I'll be able to keep them. I have a rhaphidophora tetrasperma and a monstera that I never set up any kind of poles or anything for, so they're just going crazy all over the place. The one or two times I've tried pruning or propagating I ended up killing the plants, so I'm extremely nervous to try it again. Any advice about any parts of this situation would be very much welcomed. Can you train a plant to grow up a pole once it's used to years of just kinda flopping around? Could a plant ever be downsized into a smaller pot after pruning? This was not an expected move and I am under immense stress, and the thought of messing up my plants is causing me so much anxiety. I've put years of love into them, but unfortunately instead of doing good maintenance I've just let them get gigantic and unruly. Bigger is not better right now :(
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