Well...I am delighted!!!
I am a transplant from Seattle to the tropics...and I am having to learn how to grow things here...which is very different from a temporate zone. The best information I ever read was a descriptions of the forests of Brunei...how the simbiotic relationships of the upperstory and the understory plants work... Then making it work on my 12 acres (all that means is that I have more weeds!).
The secret is H2O...and very airy open medium.
Also remember that tropical forests exist because they have a working system of beneficial microorganisms at work 24/7. I am a firm believer in EM and I always add a wee bit of molassas to my water...and even in my nursery I am only using fish emulsion or chicken manure with EM and molassas.
I can't be happier to see those new leaves!!!! Good on ya'!!!!
