A Growing Concern.

Before I get to my problem, look what I found on my neighbor's doorstep.

Om nom nom. 

He's too cute to refute. 

Back to my problem. I'm a tad bit worried about my plant babies taking over the window. Most of them have crawled out of the planter and in between the plastic blinds in the window. This isn't a big deal in the daytime, but when I want to close the blinds at night I have to do so gingerly. The greenies are probably stronger than I think, and they might not even notice the closed blinds, but now that some of them are flowering I'm a little more protective. 

View from above. 

Yeah, it's a hot mess. The tiny compulsive part of me wishes I'd organized their growth a bit. Everything's connected to everything else, and the blinds definitely don't close all the way anymore.

Jack's bean has a cousin.

Take Leo, for instance. Since last we spoke, the main stem has grown three shoots which want nothing to do with the main stem and require their own real estate. Guess how many buds are on the three offshoots? 14. Guess how many buds are still unopened on the main stem? 11. Holy smokes I'm about to have a lot of flowers. There would've been two more buds, but I forgot to water the plants over the weekend and two of them dried up and fell off when I was rearranging the greenery.

Breast Cancer Awareness Flower. 

It was difficult to get a good picture of the flowers - since the stem is growing upwards, the blooms are pressed up against the window all day, which makes them flat on one side. At this point, I'm suspicious of Leo being a climbing vine.

Just another super sunny morning with my monster greens.

Oh! I almost forgot to tell you about the one random bud that is definitely not pink. It's on the main stem near the top, and the bud opened up a little this morning. I hope it's not cream colored from lack of water (it wouldn't open if there wasn't enough water, right?), but I'm wondering why in the world it's not pink.

Pink bud in the background for comparison. 

You might've noticed the only plant not growing toward the sunlight at the far left of the planter. The Fuzz has gotten mighty robust the past few days.

View from the far end. 

If it wasn't for Leo, I'd crown the King the tallest plant I have. Out of all the leaves springing from one spot in the dirt grew a tall stem that produces its own set of leaves. For days I've watched it, waiting for a bloom to appear, but nothing has grown as of yet.

Looks like he's got a crown of his own. 

I can't wait to see what comes of this plant. 

Other than King Prickly and Leo, there hasn't been much blooming activity out of the rest of the plants. The only thing that comes close is the pinkish-purplish petal plant.

I thought this was another Leo, but now I'm not so sure. 

In non-environmental news, I won my second week of fantasy football. I went up against a guy that had Tom Brady and two other Patriots, and he was taunting me that Mark Sanchez wouldn't beat the Golden Boy (Brady's nickname). True, Brady earned more points than Sanchez, but I ended up beating this guy by forty points (huge margin of victory) and had the highest score of anyone that week. HECK YEAH!


Before I go, word to the wise - never EVER buy Chai Tea Spice syrup. I bought it for use in my morning coffee because I love chai tea to death, and that particular brand is laden with cloves*. It smells like cloves, it tastes like cloves, and the lingering aftertaste is heavy with cloves. Actually made me nauseous. I'm going back to the store today to get French Vanilla. Hopefully that flavor doesn't have cloves in it.

* I'm not against cloves. I put them in muffins and other baked goods, only in small amounts. I am against clove coffee, though.

Shwell, it's time to go do some apartmental compartmental cleaning. Have an awesome day!