And Then There Were FIVE

 So it seems a fifth leaf is about to open.  It did another one of those "not here today - gigantic tomorrow" things -  no leaf on Sunday -  BA BAM! 11-inch unfurling leaves on Monday!  It's a wonderment! Now it's Tuesday and Marty is winning in the unspinning of the leaf.

July 13 -  a later in the day shot.  

  

Marty and Spin.  Spin's number 5 leaf started small...

and now it's unfurling.  Marty's is still tightly wound!

Tomorrow I will post the Day-One shots and the Day-Whateverdayitactuallyis shots
side by side

The MOST Amazing Thing

Below are the photos from 8:00 AM on July 4th and 10:30 AM on July 5th.  I was asked --  Are you SURE those pics were from yesterday???  --   So I checked the properties on the photos.  It's incredible what a banana tree can do!!

This was the new leaf 8:00 AM July 4 on Spin	Here is the new leaf 8:00 AM on Marty
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26 hours later!  Spin!	26 hours later!  Marty!
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Can you see it????   The new leaves grew almost 8 inches in 26 hours!  How is that even possible????

And today - unfurling!

 Lazy Me

Just a bunch of photos showing some growth!

These will go from June 23 - June 28.  I just can't deal with making the table and labeling each one.  FIGURE IT OUT! hahahahahaha

Ooooh. PRETTY.

DAY- O

We've got a banana PLANTATION! 

SPIN has a new leaf~!

LOOK! There it is!

And Marty has a new leaf also!!! (but you can't see it hahahahahaha)  
I will take another photo!

DAY - O

We're Growing and I've Lost an Entry (I think)

 I thought I created another entry... but apparently not.  So here's one for today.  

BOTH Spin and Marty are looking good on our Banana Plantation!  No "babies" yet, but I'm thrilled that Marty is finally looking Banana-like!

Would you look at them!  (AND the hydrangeas are looking pretty good too!)

Marty (close up) doing Marty things!

Two Days in a Row!

 Two Days in a Row -  BUT IT IS NECESSARY!!!

Here is Spin this morning after my walk.  Nice second leaf getting ready to unfurl!

UNFURLED in the afternoon (in a rearview)!  AMAZING! 

BUT - the biggest news!

MARTY  is ALIVE and GROWING!

 Some New Growth!

So I have been taking photos but not posting because things go slowly in the Banana World.  Below are some pix with dates to show things are moving along... and Marty FINALLY may be showing some signs of life!

June 1 SPIN	June 1 MARTY	Same day -  Spin is BIG!
June 3	June 5 UNFURLED!	Lovely!
June 13 - ANOTHER LEAF!	June 16 SPIN SPIN SPIN!	June 16 Marty is FINALLY making a go of it!