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Originally Posted by GreenFin
One way to provide some extra warmth for the little naners in your greenhouse would be to get a black barrel, fill it with water, put a rigid screen over it, and set your plants on it. The water will absorb heat during the day and give it off during the night. Since heat rises, setting the plants on the screen over the water will result in the plants sitting in a relatively warm and humid updraft.
If you don't have a 55 gallon barrel, you could use a clustered group of four 5-gallon buckets. Paint them black, fill them with water, cover them with screens, and set one of your little naners on each bucket.
Best of luck with your naners, and welcome aboard!  |
Sadly, the greenhouse is only 6x8x6 and I have shelves on all three sides, so there's no room for a barrel of any size. Otherwise, I would probably go with what you suggested.
I'm testing my heater out overnight. If it keeps the greenhouse above 50F, the naners are going out there tomorrow. I have a temperature high/low meter, but it's really glitchy when in the extremes. It does well in the mid forties to room temperature.
Also, on the very tips of my banana's growth points (all four of them) it is brown. Not like a dead brown, but it's a light brownish color. Just the little hair-thin part on the tip of the growth point. Is this normal? I see the little brown hair-thin tips on all of the bananas leaves, so I assume this is normal. Am I right? Are they're PO'd about humidity?