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Olafhenny · 06-26-2013, 05:24 PM

Hi Ipatelski,

do you have a first name? Surely Ipatelski is not it?
Anyway, I have never had the opportunity to discuss their preference for moisture content
in their soil with any bananas.

However I have seen in the tropics many bananas at the edges of rice fields, no more than 5
or 10 feet away from open water tables clearly less than 18 inches from the top of soil level at
the plants. These plants seemed to be thriving.

A couple of caveats though:
• They might have been specific cultivars, but I doubt that
• Bananas do not react well to significant changes to their environment, although they always
seem to recover. I would not plant them there, while the water table is relatively high, to give
them time to adapt, while the water table rises. Also plants moved to soggy soils should have
a good head of leaves, to enable them to disperse of excess moisture.

Good luck!
Olaf

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