Thriving Baby Banana

I came out into my sunroom to check my email and library accounts (trying to keep the fines down!). It's raining, and this is cool -the rain is coming in from the South, and only hitting two sides of my sunroom, so the windows on the north side are completely dry. And, guess what! As I'm panning my gaze from South to West to North, watching the rain, I notice a new 10" leaf has unfurled on my baby banana! The first picture shows the tree newly planted (07/09/08), just after my friend Wendy gave it to me. Over the next few days, the two outer leaves died away and, since then, I've been watering and feeding, all the while chanting the mantra, "Please don't die, please, please don't die." And look, a new leaf (2nd pic)!