i think your baby might need a little vitamin d..seriously, it id false to believe that they are "shaddy plants" or inside/house plants only.. although they usually do thrive just about anywhere, mine are in mostly sun all day and are huge! if you have a little porch or even a window where you can put them in the sun for atleast a few hours a day, it might help remedy your problem. also, they are so right about rooting the plant and maybe starting over with it. at every notch or nodule, on these plants and many more, it will produce it's own rooting system if put in water. i wouldn't cut every single stem at each nodule so you have 50 scraggly sticks with one leaf on each, im just saying how easy it is to get a full plant back again, and you should be able to easily double each individual stem, that way you'll have 1 stem with the original top leaves that can be rerooted, and then the other half can be rooted as well, you'd be doubling your plant and starting again. sooo, that's would be my suggestion at this point.if you will just put them in water, they will start rooting in a few days. you can honestly leave them in the water for a long time, the roots will eventually just outgrow whatever they're in.. be careful not to soak the whole stem. you only really want about 1/2 inch to an inch in the water, they can get soggle and moldy, but it is very rare. i have never had that happen. i have 5 small cups in my room right now rooting.. just to keep mine reproducing all the time. i love love these plants. i've become fixed on them again this year... good luck and i think you'll have good results. :) happy gardening.

Yes, even on the healthiest plant, a leaf will die occasionally. More sun is good, tho. I don't think there's anything you can actually do to this plant to hurt it except rot the roots. In which case you could still probably continue the top growth because these plants have an interesting ability to make a "stopping point" on their stem. I don't know what the technical name is for this thing but I've seen it happen, the top part just falls off, looking for a more suitable place to start new roots. This also happens sometimes if the stem gets pinched against the edge of the pot. The weight of a stem can cause a break/stopping point at the rim of the pot. Just stick it back in.

about rooting: you won't need to start this one in water. laying it on the soil and watering it every once in awhile is good enough. as buyorsell888 says, it's commonly grown as a groundcover in the SW and would appreciate as much sun a you can give it, else it'll become lanky and lose its strong purple color. it's also quite drought tolerant, so you may rot it if you keep it too wet. definitely keep an "insurance plant" around in the wintertime. they're very vigorous so if you start cuttings outside early in the year, you'll have a nice carpet at the end of the growing season. here in tucson, they take some cold weather (several freezes, a few weeks of night time temps in the 20s), but it isn't coupled with the wet like in the PNW. -ming

"I think I prefer poison ivy...it's slower to spread." If you had seen the pictures of my reaction to poison ivy from last year, I think you would understand why I do feel differently!