How many leaves are at the top, and are they droopy? If not then your croton is okay, just old. How tall is it? How long are the leaves, and can you post a picture? You only have 2 options other than leaving it alone if the leaves aren't droopy. 1. You can cut off the top and propagate it. I would recommend rooting it in water first, then potting it once it has roots. As far as the old pot with the long stem, I would cut it 6 inches above the soil line. It should produce 2 or 3 new growths. Toss the leftover piece of stem. 2. You can air layer the top. This involves rooting the top while it is still attached to the plant, so never endangers the cutting, #1 above has some risk. You will CAREFULLY notch the stem about a foot below the bottom leaves and wrap the cut/stem with damp long fiber sphagnum moss. Then wrap that with plastic wrap and secure top and bottom with twist ties. The stem at and just above the notch will produce roots into the damp moss. Once there are visible roots in the moss, you can cut below the notch and pot the top. Rooting could take 2 or 3 months depending on your conditions. In either case, the old potted base is your insurance policy. It should produce new growth. When was it last repotted? If you try #2, get back with me for important details. Russ

tanyak - I have the smaller 21 QT and it is heavy and big enough! I can definatly imagine the 41Qt would require an outdoor setup :) This is all from another Newbie...but I thought it might help. When I was canning this weekend, I was canning for an 1 1/2 hours (alought I can inside so the temp is the house is more regulated). I had to heat my canner up on high (on my oven because it's old)...but then eventually slowly, get it down to medium heat. Otherwise the guage just kept giggling instead of the 1 -4 times a minute. Anyway, my point was that my husbands thought was those canners are SO big and thick that once they get really hot, it'll be easy to hold their tempature. (Mine took FOREVER to cool down) Again, yours will probably be a little different since you can outside and it's easier to cool off. I never got my "giggle" regulated ;) until the last 30 min of cooking...but even after 1 solid hour of constant giggle I still had lots of water left in the bottom, I started with 3 inches to be safe since I was a cluless newbie :) I hope that helps you out some! Good luck! Laura

Immortality is great-in the right place. I planted Immortality several years ago, it did absolutely nothing for about 5 years. I finally moved it & it was quite happy then, now it is a weed almost. I have Returning Peace that is about the right height & also a rebloomer. Might be harder to find that Immortality though. I like the look of Immortality better than Returning Peace.

All the readings are below the action level and the average is well below the action level. The variability in the readings is normal. Radon reduction systems are pretty cheap, so put one if if you want to drive the numbers down further, but that graph doesn't look very alarming to me.