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Old 02-14-2018, 05:11 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Smile Re: Hardening off potted bananas

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Originally Posted by Terri View Post
Cincinnana, how long do you run the fan on them before you set the bananas out?
FIrst, many forum members have great ways of doing this.
And they all work well.
Pick and chose what is easier for you to do.

I have recipricating fan going most of the time for air movement between containers.
You may run the fan of your choice as you like, just give it a shot .

You want simulate a breeze over the leaves to make them waver and expierience stress. (and build up muscles)

It seems that leaves which push in the winter indoors are not as robust to the elements and will break and bend with the slightest wind and heavy rain, mine do.

When you say mush in your original post, What do you mean?
Like mushy mush or just bent leaves.

You and I are in the same zone.

You can start putting your plant outside in part sun when daytime temps are in the mid 40's -50's to acclimate them, but bring them at night when cold. I will start doing this now.

Your latitude is about the same as mine so our growing conditions exactly the same.
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