Sue wrote:
It didn't do anything until I recently brought it into the kitchen
whereupon it sprouted up several inches in days. I was chuffed as
anything... until I googled previous threads and found out people
thought they were completely boring as houseplants!

the trick is to sprout many seeds. Most will sprout and grow a single stem,
but occasionally a seed will sprout multi stems and gowth will be less tree
and more shrub like with no need to pinch out

pk