venturabananas

Hi Clare,

Congrats on all the flowering bananas you have! Whenever you have time for a banana plantation tour, let me know.

I don't think there is anything especially bad about chicken poop -- it's just that it is very nitrogen rich, which makes it more prone to overfertilize than many other fertilizers. As it was explained to me, it isn't actually the nitrogen that is the problem, it is that calcium doesn't move through the tissues as fast as nitrogen, so if your soil is on the calcium-poor side, high fertilizer doses will result in bent and burnt leaves, from too little calcium in the tissues. Apparently Cavendish clones are especially susceptible, but other cultivars can have these kinds of problems, too, if you really dump on the fertilizer.

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