I might have posted some pictures of one of my hamata's early last spring looking all wicked and mean. It responded well to moving into a moss bottomed aquarium with a lid in an unheated room at night but by late May the nights weren't doing the job well enough. I ordered a Magic Chef wine cooler and by the time it arrived just 5 days later the plant had stopped growing and the base of the top leaves began turning black. I removed it from the container and media and the roots were gone so I dipped it into hormone powder and stuck it into new NZS in a mini greenhouse and right into the cooler each night but it never recovered. The same thing happened to my mac so it was a double whammy. I have another with a 1 inch leaf span that never really took off and even though it received the correct conditions all summer just sat there looking like plastic until about October. Suddenly the leaves took on a nice sheen and new growth started piling on with 4 new generations of leaves going all the time. At first I thought it had branched with all the new growth but it's still the single growth tip. Almost like it went into neutral in April and came out six months later. Here is the late great dead hamata I miss so much :
........here is the other one looking hopeful:
........here is the other one looking hopeful: