Double Amnesia

I knew I waited too long to put a cage over the big girl... the lowest pair of branches were splaying out horizontally as tall as the plant was vertically and I decided I didn't want to devote that much patio space to one girl. But hoo boy, did I do an excellent job of mangling that poor girl getting a cage over her head. She did a damn good job of fighting back but she lost a couple limbs in the process... and I needed to perform minor surgery at about 3 or 4 locations (duct tape works wonders). She looked like hell initially but after a couple days she has bounced back admirably and I'm sure she'll be OK. She's a weed after all. The Other girl is apparently having a hard time giving up that flowering thang. The big (newly mangled) girl really doesn't show signs of flowers but the 10 gallon girl has flowers all over... although it appears that new fan leaves are just starting to grow thru the flowers. This gives a denser and heavier looking structure to the smaller girl. Thankfully she didn't grow arms horizontally like the 15 gallon girl - but maybe that's just a failure of pruning on my part. I've never grown anything in a pot larger than 5 gallons before. While the idea in my head was a bigger pot will need watering less frequently - in reality - a larger pot grows a larger plant - and that larger plant drinks a commensurate amount of fluid because she's you know - LARGER. So maybe I don't get as many days off this summer as I was planning. Heights are 51" for the 15 gallon girl and 43" for the 10 gallon girl.