Pruning both roots and top is a good way to limit growth. It's hard to prune too much. This tepin recovered nicely after pruning.

You're kidding willard, that rootless stump was able to regrow with no leaves?

That thing recovered?!?! Wow...what was the process after you pruned it? I thought about severely pruning back some plants to over winter this fall but that's extreme.

If it's feasible to do that though, i may overwinter more plants.

That turned into this in 10 months:

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What did you do after the pruning?

Did it go under lights or put it in the dark? Pot it or put it in the ground?

that is a amazing regrowth of a stump. After seeing that, I now believe in the tooth fairy.

I pruned the plant, put the stump in grow rocks, put that in a basket and put it back in hydro. It took about a month to see roots in the grow rocks; top resprouted in 20 days or so.

I grow in a temp-controlled greenhouse.

Wow, that's amazing. I knew that you could prune other plants to that extreme to overwinter them. So, I guess a little root pruning won't hurt. Thanks.