If that teapot doesn't have a drainage hole, you should repot it asap into a pot that does.

That is a beautiful little plant. I wouldn't chop it.

No one seems to be answering your question and I have to admit I don't know the answer either but would like to know.

I just want to mention that you don't want to let it very larger in that teapot or you will have to break the teapot to get the plant out.

Yours isn't very old yet. You still have several years before it's had any chance of growing a longer caudex. If you want it to grow "faster" (for a ponytail), then give it sunlight. Lots of it. Mine grow in direct sunlight all day, every day, for most of the year, and they still only grow at a steady pace. But since it's wintertime, I would just leave it alone.

Contrary to popular opinion, fertilizer isn't plant food, it is merely plant nutrients. Plants manufacture their own food thru photosynthesis. If you want to "feed" your plant(s), then feed them sunlight. I rarely ever fertilize my ponytails. Maybe once or twice a year, and only during the warm, spring and summer months, never during the winter. My ponytails don't receive any care while they're indoors. In fact, I don't even water them during that time. Maybe once, and that's it. They barely even get any sunlight. The reason I do this is because I don't want them growing during the cold dreary winter months. They wouldn't get the sunlight they normally would, and their new foliage would grow limp and have no perky, upright curves to them. When spring rolls around, and it warms up enough to move them back outdoors, I'll give them a good drink, making sure not to get their foliage wet, and back outside they go. This is when they start to grow again, and their foliage gets all of the direct sunlight that they could possibly want.

So my advice would be to leave your ponytail alone. Let it rest over winter and enjoy its beauty. These plants thrive on neglect. Give them TLC, and they'll loathe you for it, HaHa... :)

I would let it get 2-3 times the diameter before cutting the growth tip off to make it sprout multiple tails. The ones for sale in the garden centres here are much larger than yours is. I have one myself which was damaged and it sprouted many tails. It was about 15cm diameter.

I never fertilise mine, just repot every few years.

hi, Alanna,

Do you have a photo of what you'd like to achieve?

I know mine is quite young. I bought it because I thought it was adorably tiny. I also know they’re extremely slow growers. I don’t intend on cutting now. I’m just going to enjoy it as a cute little palm. I was just trying to gather info for the future. I think the older and larger ones look fantastic with their many tails. I’m guessing it’s going to be 2 or 3 years because I just prune it.

I will start moving it outside for the summer to try to encourage more growth. It spent last summer indoors. My citrus and tropicals go outside, but my house plants tend to burn in the summer sun, so I left him inside this past summer.

I don’t have a picture that I took in person. These are all from the internet. It’s hard to tell, but if you zoom in, there’s multiple sprouts, giving it a much fuller ponytail.

It depends. Take and put in a 5 gallon pot and it will grow larger faster. Or like somebody said enjoy the artistry of it in that pot and chances are it will take a very long time to outgrow it. They Bonsai easliy. I have one in the ground 25 years old with a near 4' wide base,I have one in a 12" pot that's years old.,and one in a 6" pot thats also years old and has years more from dwarfing. Then,I have a variegated...

Stan - I’d love to see pictures