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Old 05-01-2018, 09:17 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Default Re: Musa Basjoo Spacing

I'm about 30-35 miles NE of Atlanta and my Basjoos in the ground are about 6 feet already this year - no fertilizer yet. Once you hit them with a good dose of fertilizer, they turn into monsters and pup like crazy. I think I had 15-20 pups on one basjoo last year. Biggest pup was probably about 8 feet. You'll have a million of them in 1-2 years.

The ground warmth protects the corms from the cold and the pot will not in our winters.

Watch out for small caterpillars when it gets hot and muggy. They like to sit where the basjoo cigar leaf comes out of the pstem and chow down on the new tender growth. All your leaves will look like a straight lines of bullet holes when they open up lol. My other cultivars haven't been touched by any caterpillars or any other insects ever.
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