Re: Growing a Super Dwarf Cavendish Indoors
A little tip for you Kevin and Sherry, keep a spray bottle of copper fungicide on hand and systemic pest control. I have had problems with my SDC's with white flies and spider mites. Also, I lost my first SDC to white mold last fall when I brought it into the house for the cold weather. The mold showed up as white patches between loose petioles and the main p-stem, so careful on the watering and give it a good visual check every week or so.
Your guys' (and gal ;oD ) plants look very good! Hope they do well for you! I have had mine for going on 3 years now and just absolutely love them. Since I purchased my first one, I have had numerous pups, and the 8 or so plants I have now are all from that very first one. I have also given away 4 or 5 and lost a few to "experimentation". It is not uncommon for me to cut 2 or 3 pups off in the early spring just to have another 3 show up by august. These are prolific little buggers but fun to have.
I also noticed that they seem pretty happy in the pots I use, not sure of the gallonage (literage if you're canadian, eh! -- yes I'm poking you Sherry) but the pots are 18" across the top and 20" tall, and I try to not have more than 2 pups at a time in each pot and remove the pups each spring.
Congrats on the new found desires and Good Luck! Can't wait to see them grow!
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