Hi, I am a new banana grower and just bought Fruit Fuel (Grow More) 16-8-24 on Amazon; I'd previously been using a basic Bonide 10-10-10 without micronutrients and some of my leaf edges were starting to look chlorotic so it made me think perhaps the bananas needed more potassium and/or magnesium. My plants are in 3 gallon pots currently, about 2 feet high, indoors.
I have some questions about how much fertilizer each plant needs. I know there are prior posts on this but I've read a number and still have questions so please bear with me! Any advice appreciated.
Most sources I've found recommend a certain amount of fertilizer in a certain amount of water. I find this confusing - it seems to me that that a plant should need a certain amount of fertilizer / nutrients per period of time, regardless of how much water that fertilizer is dissolved into, right?
For example: I see on the fruit fuel website and in
this post that approximately 1 tbsp per gallon of water per month is recommended. However, my plants don't need a gallon of water at a time... so I'm not sure if I should be using 1 tbsp of fertilizer in a gallon of water and distributing it over all my plants or whether I should be using less water with 1 tbsp of fertilizer for each plant - as the fertilizer is quite soluble it'll dissolve in less water.
Also, I wanted to verify the amount of fertilizer each plant needs (1 vs 2 tbsp / month), as Richard's comment
here states that a young plant in a two gallon pot needs 2 tbsp of fertilizer per month (per PLANT, I believe) instead of one.
Lastly - do these doses change at all for container grown plants? Thanks so much again for any help or recommendations!