tlbean, your goal while a plant is rooting is to reduce the surface area of evapotranspiration. It is always recommended to eliminate some of the leaves and to cut larger leaves in half. Many novices make the cuttings too long, as well. That makes it hard on a plant. Next time, eliminate the rooting in water step and root your cuttings directly in the potting medium.

You have a lot of options to consider, but IS getting pretty late to chop it back hard or do any serious pruning. I mean, you really don't want to remove all the plant's food-making factories (leaves) just as it's about to take a break for the winter. Where you live has an impact on what your realistic present time options are, so maybe we should find that out at this point & then figure out what to do/ what you can do. Adding your zone and state or city/state to your user info will help others give you the most specific advice, so you might consider that option. Al

A couple of things to consider.... Where does all this communication wire terminate? You will need a centralized connection center that you can patch lines in for use or remove when not in use. Especially coax and to a lesser degree data cables. Coax runs that are unused just degrade and create noise in your signal to the devices you do use. Its great to have coax to every possible location you may want to use it, unless you're going to design it that its all connected together with no access to change the termination and connections. Bring that wire into a central location, in a star pattern with the option to connect and disconnect the runs that are not in use, it is worth it. Give consideration to WiFi coverage, homes are never setup to install a wifi router in a central location for the best coverage, and most people have horrible wifi coverage in their homes due to the limited locations they can install a wifi wire to connect it with the data and coax connections needed for it and the cable modem. Imagine if the kitchen is in the center, there being a coax, several CAT connections and a 120VAC outlet above a kitchen cabinet to install all that for the best wifi coverage and its up out of the way. Another factor, would every consider installing satellite TV service in the future, or have it as a selling point for future owner of the home? If so, now is the time to setup your coax network for a Satellite install if you elect to do it. If you install the correct wire in the correct way, satellite installers will not have to crawl all over you home destroying it with their hack installation of their coax wiring, they simply have to install the antenna, connect it to the cable you have pre-installed and reconfigure the central hook up for the satellite stb's to be installed at your existing coax drops..... Most people are using the quality RG6 for CATV that meets the spec for satellite, its just good measure to assure reliable CATV and cable modem performance. But what they fail to realize is satellite requires one more thing over CATV, it needs to pass power over the coax cable to power the satellite dish. Currently most DIY'er and Contractors and Retailers are using Copper Clad (coated) steel core (central wire) in their RG6 coax cable. The signal mostly travel overs the surface of the wire, so the copper coating offers the same performance at a much lower cost, than a solid copper core. The solid copper core does offer the tiniest bit less signal loss, but its so little it will never make a difference, so it doesn't justify the higher cost of a solid copper core. EXCEPT, if you using it for Satellite that almost all use power passing over the coax cable to power the satellite dish.... ....electrical power is transmitted through the entire wire not just the surface like the rf signal, and copper is lower resistance than steel, so a copper clad steel core will have a much bigger voltage drop at the end of the coax cable to the Satellite dish and it will perform poorly. So if you want to build in the option for possible satellite, make sure that all the coax is satellite rated (3GHZ swept) and the coax runs to the satellite dish and to the main stb in the places you're likely to install it are solid copper core coax for the power passing. Some satellite systems inject the power at the main splitter/switch for system, which the perfect location for that would be at that central location for all the wiring I spoke of earlier....

Seil, technically there are fewer blooms, but not a lot fewer, and the ones remaining are of higher quality. Let's take Karl Forster for an example,Most of what was pruned out was dying wood from underneath. It wasn't going to bloom anyway, and was only going to take energy from the plant. That's why it gets cut out. It you wait until summer to cut it out, you can't see it, and you run the risk of damaging a fair amount of young growth pulling it loose. If during the spring pruning, some buds get accidentally cut off, who's counting? This isn't a HT, even though it has halfway decent HT form, where every flower gets obsessed over. Dale, prune it in spring. Fewer bugs.