First off, I would like to know how far it is from each one of those windows. If it is in between the windows, but still say 6 ft away from both, you're still not giving it enough light. Light is cut by half each foot a you are from a window. Say you get 1000 candle feet at the glass of a south window, one foot away from the window will only give you 500 cf, 250 cf at two feet, and so on. Do you see the problem? Now most people know film cameras, you could say a full sun plant would be able to use a 200 film, partial shade a 400 film, a partial light an 800 film, and low light a 1200 film. ZZ's need more light than they are usually given, they need a full sun/partial shade exposure. They are slow enough growers without crippling their photosynthesis more by giving them a low light position.

I was actually wondering about this, too, and read some posts/sites last night. See, there are a bunch of ZZ plants around the mall, and I'm sure they have accidents sometimes, with running children, you know, or my fingers... O:) I was initally going to ask whether I could just put the leaf in the closet for a year and not worry about it, but I guess it needs some light. Darn. So here are my remaining questions: One site said it's better to break than cut the leaf. I think I am supposed to break it in half, yes? Am I to break it straight across, or down the central vein? And then I plant the broken side? Or am I wanting to just stick petiole in dirt? And that brings us to the next question. What is everyone's favorite ZZ rooting medium? Perlite-soil? Straight perlite? Something that I would have to go and purchase? - Lali, who so far only has one plant (well, fifteen, but all from the same fruit) propegated from stolen material, and does not think the elephants at the zoo minded her taking that poncirus

Thanks for the help. The photo is from my phone camera, so it is not the best. But you can clearly see the lighter, brighter green new leaves (third rhizome from the right) which unfurled from their sheath just in the past 48 hours!!! No kidding. Before that, it looked like the "sheathed" growth of an unopened rubber-tree plant leaf. This is in addition to the other new shoots that have appeared since I got the plant on May 11. This rapid growth ASTONISHED me, as on-line research kept referring to ZZ plants as "very slow growers." (I am joking with my friends that my ZZ plant somehow aspires to be an oak tree, or that atheletes must be sneaking into my home when I am at work and dumping performance enhancing drugs into its pot. LOL.) I watered it on the 18th and watered it again last night, June 1, and am sticking with watering every 2 weeks Should I water more often? The current pot is about 10 inches across. Last night I purchased one that is about twice that size (the largest one I could find with drainage holes) and will re-pot the plant tonight.

If you goggle "yellowing of zz plant leaves", it will tell you to remove the plant from the pot and repot in fresh soil, removing all the rotten roots. Chances are that it has been overwatered. That "weird plant" that is growing in the pot is the zz flower. I have a zz plant growing in my garden and I rarely water it.