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Originally Posted by beam2050
I am sorry but I have another question for you;
I have around 10 namwa mats going at this time. my property is pretty much the same soil [golden sand] front to back and near 20 ft. down.
question is; you have some small plants here and there that do not seem to be keeping up. you do something to kick them in the pants?
I have a couple doing the same thing, not moving. look healthy but not moving. come from pots.
beautiful scene. looks like a wonderful place to live. all your pics say that.
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Small plants here and there! Runts!
Absolutely! I get annoyed with them, I blaim this on the quality of the stock. Within a population, there are giants and midgets. Multiplying from your own stock, choosing only sword suckers from strong plants will surely help.
In the field in question, we bought the suckers from another plantation, who had difficulty in supplying the numbers we wanted and got help from other colleagues. Who knows if we did not get water suckers in the lot? Once chopped short for transport, it is hard to tell.
However, the severe deleafing during the growth period of the rainy season seems to be waking them up. Taking away old leaves, spotted, yellowing, even if the plant is small forces them to grow and things are looking better in one corner of that field, much better than they looked a month ago.They basically grow up or die away.
This field was transplanted in mid October, now nine months old. Namwa are slow! I can have GM fruiting at nine months.
After a while I get annoyed and go around killing these runts, then we replace them with new hopefully stronger transplants so as not to waste an irrigation position.
Other factors including soil quality could be in play here. Interaction from certain types of weeds or pests is also possible. The water factor is not in play as irrigation is centrally distributed and equal for all in this field. Fertilizer is equal for all.