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Old 09-17-2010, 10:38 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Default Re: Newer leaves turning lighter

A couple days ago I put about 5lbs of gypsum on each of these banana plants, and let the rain hopefully seep it down to the root zone to hopefully green them up. I'm not too worried since it is already getting cold up here in the north so they are almost done growing, but if they survive this winter, I hope that they come back healthy and green.

Another reason these 2 may be turning lighter is because I may have put too much peat moss down into the holes when I planted them while the other one that didn't use peat moss is not turning lighter. Perhaps once the roots and corms expand far enough, this problem might go away.
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I'm in zone 6 upstate NY, specialize in growing temperate cold hardy bamboos(mainly phyllostachys) and starting to get into bananas.

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