You don't seem to give your location -What is your minimum winter temperature Kipp? On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Kipp McMichael <kimcmich@hotmail.com>wrote: For a desert plant, they are unforgiving of going dry as others have said. Until I killed it with drought, mine had survived 2 winters in an unheated greenhouse. If given constant heat, however, they can "flower" in as few as 5 years.