Petey

Thanks all — this is helpful.

Yes, it's a beautiful plant, maybe the one that has really done the best of the 5-6 container ones I have going. It's thrived on this sunny deck in a 5 gallon bucket, holes in the bottom, Mt Desert Island blend cactus/succulent soil (from coast of maine) and Marine Cuisine fertilizer (from FoxFarm).

The helpful comments here have made me a little less certain of what to do. Mostly whether to go with my original plan — the sunny basement window, possibly with a heat mat addition as suggested above — or to bring it home to my place.

The reason is that if I leave it up at that house, I'll only be checking on it once every few weeks from October-April, and should anything go wrong with bugs, or with water levels, I won't have occasion to notice. Some stuff I've read on here suggests that cooler temperatures and dry soil can keep a plant in semi-hibernation, but I don't know if the ample sun in the basement would cause stress. Meanwhile, if I move it upstairs where it will get indirect light, I'm more confident in the temperature but also in it just not getting as stressed. My 5ft dwarf namwah in my living room in my apartment hasn't gotten any direct light since April due to sun angle, and it has still done well, and put out leaves, but required less water than in the winter when it was getting lots of sun.

Alternatively, I could bring this mahoi mama down to my place — still small enough to fit in my car for a little bit longer — and keep a close eye over her in my apartment, or at my office, where I've been eyeing a sunny corner as a place for a banana plant. However, the latter would require a transplant, and I'm not sure how well the pups would do with a transplant at this time, since they're still so small.

Would appreciate any follow-on thoughts!