Encouraging leaves on lower Staur. stems?

[Tom]

When my Mini M was covered in BBA and Staghorn, I pulled off the affected Staurogyne leaves. Now it's much cleaner, but the lower parts of these stems haven't sent out new leaves and it looks a bit bare. It's only growing from the top. Will it stay like that, or is there a way to encourage new leaves to grow lower down?

Cheers,
Tom

 

[spyder]

Chop the tops! Removing the main growing point should force the plant to push out new side shoot's. Cut them back to 1 or 2 nodes and fresh growth should come from those nodes. Replant trimmings if you need more coverage.

Staur is a new plant to me and mine are slow going so far. From my research this plant likes being pruned back hard especially if your trying to carpet with it.