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Now I also did a little research for amount of water needed to water/irrigate banana plants. I was giving a lot of water to my small nana patch to keep the leaves from dropping and make the nanas happy during our drought.

The Fla home guide for growing bananas states/recommends a plant to receive 1 to 1.5 inches of water per week. ... Other references indicated a banana plant root spread can be as much as 30 ft.; but the Fla Home Guide stated the root spread about 16 ft. Anyway I used 15 ft X 15 ft area & 1 in of water for the following calc.

15 ft X 15 ft => 225 s1 ft => 32400 sq in X 1 in = 32400 cu in. => 140 gallons +/- of water per mature plant per week.

I was watering 12 plants, but 8 of those were less than 3 ft tall.

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