This is my VdB. I picked it up from another forum member that started it on 5/30/2013 about 1 month ago. I up potted it using MG and Perilite the next day. Since then I have used MG all purpose fertilizer 2 times about 2 weeks apart and last weekend I applied Osmocote Plus 6 month to the top under the pine straw mulch. It's getting 7 hours of direct sun. Up until last week the soil has been very wet because of the rains but for the past 5 days I've been really conservative on the water and letting the soil dry out a bit. The leaves has always curled up a bit but today I noticed the top new leaf really curled and also some of the leaves have turned softer than usual and one is limp. I checked the soil and it is moist to the touch; not too wet or dry. At first I thought it was the fertilizer but I see no leaf burn. I thought about the pot being too hot from the sun or the soil being too dry but all my other plants are doing fine lined up together with the same soil moisture.

Questions:
What is happening?
I pinched the top bud yesterday. Could this have been what caused it?
Also, will the leaves eventually put on the "finger" pattern?

Please help.

The first picture was yesterday evening. The second was taken just now.

So you're wanting your leaves to give you the finger?

It looks like they're headed in that direction.  Check the bottom of the pot to see how wet that is.  If the bottom is wet the roots can be rotting down there.  Your leaves are protecting themselves from the sun.  If you can give it dappled sun in the afternoon it will stop doing that.  Then you can gradually let it adjust to the sunlight.  Or you can leave it in the sun, possibly lose 1 or 2 leaves that formed in the dark days and the next leaves that come out will be sun adapted from formation.

Completely 100% normal......VDB is a bit of a diva in the hot southern sun.  I have a row of them in ground as Japanese step overs..they have over 50  6 foot tall arms and almost all of them curl in the sun once it hit 11 a clock or so.  

Hahaha, not that finger! The water is free to drain from the bottom so there's no puddling of water. It has been in that same location since I got it 1 month ago and It has grown a bit since then so I think it's used to that amount of sun. Should I pull it back into a semi shaded location?

Ditto, my experience with MG soil is it stays to wet to long and
I no longer use it.

Here I took a picture of mine......like I said it is Japanese stepover.  The crossarms are at 5'10" so the arms are tall.  Look at all the curled leaves, happens every day, starting about noon and by 3:00 it will be worse.  By evening they are perfectly normal again.  Look at the leaves at the top and you can see it also along the sides.  Not as much curl as you have but mine are in ground and yours in that small hot pot.  

Whoa!!!! That is VERY impressive! Crazy how good your VdB looks! Thanks for sharing. I suppose I have nothing to worry about.

Hummmmm... Maybe I was worried over nothing. The new top leaf looks fine now. After some advice from WillsC I covered the black pot. A little on the cheap with foil but I do not have any silver bubble wrap. Thanks.

I think, like Wills, above, that Violette gets very sensitive in the direct Southern sunshine. Try moving her into the shade/part shade and allow her to lick her wounds and unfurl her tenders fingers.

Joe