Eli5 can plants just grow forever?

Question

Theoretically if you gave a plant all of the nutrients that it needs to grow could it continue to grow forever or would it stop eventually?

Would it eventually just die regardless of the nutrients that you are pumping in to it? Do plants age like humans?

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I work in a marijuana cultivation site and we have “mother” plants that we use to take clones and they do eventually age out and get too old to be viable. It’s always a little sad when we gotta cull one