wolfebc

Taking any plant from indoors to outdoors will burn to some degree. We have go grow
our plants indoors for almost 5 months out of the year under artificial lights. We strive
to find the perfect conditions to grow not only our variegated bananas, but palms and
other tropicals. We experiment with amount of lumen output,temperature, amount of water and fertilizer, and humidity to find which works best. We have found that when the humidity drops below 80% we start seeing the white parts on our white varegated bananas and monteras start to burn and the lower the humidity the more the white parts turn brown. All the other perameters stay the same IE; temperature, light,water
and fertilizer. When we slowly acclimate our plants to the outside in the spring, the
White variegated plants burn a lot more than the all green varieties. The sun dries
the ambient air, therefore lowering humidity. Which these plants don't like. I don't know
about some of you all but in elementary school we learned that when it is hot and sunny
out, the humidity is naturally lower. I just assumed everone else knew this too.
Silly me, I thought this was a forum to assist people to get the most out of their plants.