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Default Re: Helen's Hybrid Update

So this hasn't been an ideal year for this lovely lady, as she had a bit of a rocky start. This is the plant I dry stored over winter and in all likelihood put her in the ground a little early while it was still too wet for her as indicated in this thread:

Uncovering winterized bananas

see the last post in the above thread.

I decided I'd post an update, even though she doesn't look her best, because I thought it was interesting to see the stem on the left straightening up. Its kind of a weird pic, the angles look a little funky (the stems on the right aren't really leaning to the right as they appear), but if you compare the left p-stem with the bamboo stake to its left, which it was being help up by, you can see how much it has straightened. I actually had to untie it because it looked like it might be starting to choke the poor lady.

Today:



As compared to June 30:



Water has been a bit of a struggle this year, we are in a stage 5 (worst) drought and being on a well makes it a little more challenging to give my plants the water they really need to grow well.

But, we're getting along and she is definitely going in the right direction.

She looks a little better from this side

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