louis14

The Permanganate is recommended as an anti fungus. Potting would be impractical/impossible as when we buy suckers they can weigh several kgs each. I have been using the Permanganate to disinfect the suckers we purchase from other plantations, to avoid bringing infections into ours. But I am getting similar failure ratios with sucker transplants from our own plants. However, the rest of the crop is beautiful, strong and tall so we do not think it is a soil or PH problem.We also have planted fields of Khai and Gros Michel and the ratio is much better, between 5 and 10 max. We used Permanganate in the same way, the work was done by the same staff. The high failure ratio is with the Namwa variety which is surprising as it is a very resistant locally developped plant.