Back after holidays

Last week, I was having some issues with watering.  A few of the plants were bogged with water for a week after their last watering.  I'm not too sure what really happened, but these were some of the bigger plants so I was surprised they wouldn't be able to soak up the water, and I was even surprised the water didn't just evaporate out over that course of time.

Also, I saw a few plants growing extremely fast.  One of them was positioned just so that it had about one inch of clearance to grow, so I moved it to where it had about 3", thinking that it could stay there for a day or two before I find a good spot for it.  Later that day, the clearance was almost all gone, so I moved it to give it another few inches.  At the end of the day, I happened to look at it again and the clearance had been taken up again.

Because of these two factors, I scratched my plan to water them on Friday evening before leaving town for a few days.  At the start of the week, I had added some fertilizer to about half the plants, but not given them as much water as usual.

This is what I came home to last night:

I placed a hockey stick in the background, which is a little taller than 5'.  The plants are getting pretty close to maturity.

Impressive root growth.  (As always, click to see full size photo)

This was the last one I planted.  All of a sudden last week there were 5 shoots, and then this week, there is a little sixth one and these plants probably grew the most of any while I was gone the last few days.

I am hoping in the next week to plant some seeds for Venus Fly Trap and a banana plant.  I am also going to move a few of the lilies into 12" pots so they can expand a bit.  I was looking at a lot of the plants' containers and saw lots of good root growth.  Not all of them were quite as impressive as the one pictured above, but they were mostly in great shape.