Too much growth!

Last year I made a two-part timelapse video of a seedling germinating, titled Gives Growth and Gives More Growth. (Gives Growth is perhaps my most favourite video that I've made.)

The plant I used came from Australian Geographic, and came in the package of a little can called "Message Bean". It said nothing about what type of plant it was - only that once germinated, it would have a special message imprinted on its seed-leaves.

Anyhow, some of you might have wondered what happened to that plant after my 14-day project. Well I ended up planting it in a wheelbarrow in my garden (in Indooroopilly), and basically left it alone :p I also stuck a wooden pole for it to climb up around. At several points over the next few months it looked close to dying. I watered it irregularly, figuring that I didn't have any use for it anyway.

A few weeks ago, as we were packing up our unit in Indooroopilly and clearing out the garden, this is what greeted me:

The monster! Untangled, it had probably grown to about 6 metres long, with vines and branches reaching all over, all through the clothes line and even across into the neighbour's yard! Madness. Imagine time-lapsing that. Sadly I had to take it all down. It's amazing how life just keeps on going. God is incredibly clever.