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Old 10-06-2017, 10:56 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Default Re: ethlyne gas to force flowering ?

This is observations over the years;
Stressed plants have fruited faster at times. I've noticed this with the drought we had here the beginning of the year. After the rains started quite a few of my clumps pushed bells way before I was expecting. Veinte cohol, nam wah, double, Orinoco, patupi all did when they were much shorter than normal.
The bunches were smaller, or in the case of 1000 fingers, Orinoco, double, they produced only male flowers in a few.

Sooo, perhaps cutting water in the dry season, and then feeding and watering well later on would force some bunches.......

Or!! get a really big bag, place it over your banana and tie it off.
Get a large bag of ripening fruit; apples, bananas, something that gives off lots of ethylene.
connect it to your tree with a hose....
Maybe that'll work.
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