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Old 03-19-2013, 08:19 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Just thought I'd offer an early update.

Plants have been potted up for about 6 days now. In the original pic, one of the Thai had slightly curled leaves. Those leaves straightened themselves out within 12 hours or so.

I've watered the bananas with 9-3-6 twice so far. They've been getting ample light, but only direct, morning sun till about 9am. Half the plants are already producing new leaves, and I'm sure the others will be quick to follow.

I left my plants out during their first week when temps dropped into the mid-to-high 50s once or twice. No signs of ill effect. There's another cold front or two coming through the rest of the week. Overnight temps could drop into the high 40s once or twice, so I might toss an old sheet over them just to play it safe. The rest of the time, temps have been climbing to the high 70s and culminating at 80 degrees today.

While I've got a couple of containers of water soluble Miracle Grow 24-8-16, I'm planning to purchase a 25lb bag of Grow More 28-8-18 from Plantsthatproduce.com. Between my growing Basjoo and these Thai Black (in a month or two), I should make good use of that bag, and even with shipping, it's a pretty good deal.

I'm considering trying to (lightly) supplement the fert regimen with some additional Phosphate to help push the root system, but I won't act on that until I do more research and see others' advice from old threads.
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