let it leave me like a long breath

so last year i got some plants and earlier this year i got some more plants and now is the part where i actually realize that taking care of a bunch of jade plants hasn't prepared me for other houseplants very well b/c jade plants are very slow-growing.

i got a hedera ivy a few months ago and it's grown like a foot and just about doubled in length (though the new growth is a lot more linear than the old growth)

i got a maranta about two months ago that was super singed and withered and it's just exploded back to health. i split it in two and both are growing, but one of them is really growing. like seven new leaves in the two week period, each bigger than the last.

last year in june i got an autumn fern and it put out like two new fronds. now this year it's finally doing some growing and it's unfurled three fronds so far and they're about as big as the entire rest of the plant, and there are like a dozen fronds still curled up tight at the roots. also i think it got some spores into a neighboring pot b/c there are tiny fern-looking flecks starting to grow in there, which would be kind of neat. easy way to get like a dozen ferns

last year also in june i got a still-unidentified plant that might be a ficus. it was planted five to a pot so i separated them and they've all grown a lottt. the biggest one is about a foot tall now. it was like five inches or so when i got it?

in november of last year i got an umbrella plant, which was also potted four to a pot. i separated them (mostly; two are still in the same pot) and they've all also grown enormously. one of the wild things is that you can tell when i got them by their internodes? the internode length shrank drastically for the growth they've had since i got them

i also have some other relatively-new plants (coffee trees, neon pothos, pepperomia rosso, mystery pepperomia, tricolor oyster plant, thanksgiving cactus) but their growth hasn't been as dramatic

also i got grow lights for my succulents and so now my echeverias are actually growing properly in rosettes again instead of continuing to get super leggy. i've had to behead basically every one of them.

basically i'm not gonna be getting any new plants for the forseeable future because all of these seem like they're gonna get really big.