My! Thats one nice Janet Craig!

If it were mine, I'd cut it but that may not be how you want to keep the plant. Do you want to cut it? Does the look of it not suit what you want it to look like?

I can't tell but it looks like may be you have it staked?

Yes, it's staked...I've topped it twice before...it's a mutant! just grows & grows..I now have 3 of these..

Where have you been cutting it when you cut it back?

top 1/3

This may seem radical but I was going to suggest cutting it back to the thinning part at the bottom. Do you see where two leaves on the left side (right above the curled leaf of another plant) where it looks like two leaves are "in profile" ? I would cut there and root the top part. I don't know how to edit and draw on pictures otherwise I'd draw an arrow like so many people do on other pictures. On the same level as the bright green leaf to the right of the plant (different plant from the one to the left, not the tiny leaf, the bigger leaf from a bigger plant). I hope I'm describing it in a coherent way.

I know exactly where you are talking about...yes, that's radical. The other plant I trimmed back a lot. It's a Maranta.

I noticed there's new stalk coming up in the pot....I'll give it a month or two..then I'll top it. It will fill in nicely when I do that..

I have a very dear friend in Ok.

Could you? You know you could. Should you? Only you know what you want to look at. The consensus of the masses is interesting to gauge, but I hope you'll decide for your own preference. It's lovely!

As far as my opinion goes, Dracs throw leaves down like there's no tomorrow, so I wait until I can use a naturally-occurred length of naked stem to propagate. Can't bring myself to discard Drac leaves before the plant(s) decides to do it without my manipulations.

good info Tiffany, Thank you..

Happy to ruminate, not sure there was any actual info. Just encouraging introspection. :+)

i'd put 3 of them in one big pot at slightly different heights - then they look good even when they grow quite tall.

i can't find a pic in my files, though i am sure i saw something like that recently and took a pic of it too, since i quite liked it. but i found something similar so you have an idea what it might look like.

see here

Now you have me thinking...Tiffany always, always has great ideas..I love her mixed pots. genius.

That is a great arrangement , Petruska, if one does not want to see trunk. A solid column of lovely leaves.

TYVM, Debra! :)

that looks pretty impressive!

I'm 99% sure that is Dracaena Compacta, not Janet Craig.

Good pruning job!

Stewartsjon can you explain the differences to us?

Janet Craig has much longer wider, more bendy leaves, Drac Compacta has short stubby, stiffer leaves and more of them. Personally I've always found Compactas a bit more troublesome, but that might be just me. Comparative pics below:

Janet Craig

Compacta

I've noticed them called 'Janet Craig Compactas' on the web - [this thread[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/janet-craig-compacta-dracaena-dsvw-vd~5277589?n=3) for example - but that's a new thing to me. As far as I know the official name is D. Fragrans Compacta.

There are loads of plain green Dracs - it gets very confusing. There's a lovely but rather more expensive one called Drac Tatuada which looks like a mid-point between the two. Dunno if that's made it to the USA.

Tatuada

Still, with regards to Debra's original post you can treat them all the same, certainly with regards to pruning, and she has done a very good job!

Janet Craig Compactas