Banana Jealousy

We only did a very minor defoliation this week as we let her grow vertically after removing the ties. She did stretch quite a bit, from 24 to 32 inches. She also has her flowers pretty well established now, with what appears to be some pinkish purple starting to poke through. She has been drinking about 64-80oz of water per day for the past couple of weeks, which is quite a bit more than I usually expect from a 5-gallon fabric pot plant in a living soil mix by quite a margin...and I always let the soil dry out nearly completely between waterings. We actually went on a camping trip for a day and a half, and didn't water her in that time, on the last couple days of the week, but she didn't seem to mind. I'm pretty impressed with this plant so far.