damaclese

September 01,2008 observations.
Having survived the hottest summer on record. We'll not exactly the hottest but certainly the one with the most days over 100° so far. Banana with the most growth has been dwarf Brazilian averaging one new leave every four days for a total of 10 leaves total growth since July 15th. The second fastest growing banana was the older of the two ice creams. Averaging one new banana leaf of every 10 days for total of six leaves. The slow growing or the Ensete Ventricosum which if only produced one leave
In the last two months. Overall growth on all the bananas has been unremarkable. However it appears that the more mature banana is more capable it is of surviving in high temperatures and low humidity. So in conclusion one must consider only placing very mature approximately six months to eight months plants in the. The process of acclimatization is slow in the desert environment. After placing the bananas outside on July 15 it took approximately 45 days to acclimatized the bananas to six hours of sun. During this process many leaves were scalded. However the new leaves grown in the last seven days appear to be a handle sun quite well sustaining no scalding to date. During this period of 45 days the bananas experienced three torrential downpours two of which had sustained winds of 70 miles an hour. For a total of 1.75 inches of rain. And sustain temperatures of 105 day and 85 night. all those subjects receive regular watering every other day for a total of three inches per week. Regular fertilizing on a monthly basis with vigrow slow release Palm food. With the shortening days and changing Engel of the sun they are starting to experience much lower levels of ultraviolet light and lower temperatures. I attribute the increasing growth to this fact. It will be very interesting to see how the bananas grow during our extended Fall which should last for September 1 threw December 1. Based on the observations of Overalla weather patterns in the U.S. Predictions of overall cold weather with early onset will probably shorten our normally extended growing season. Although this is just subjective I feel that the dwarf Brazilian will bloom sometime from December to march all subject plans are going to be over wintered indoors should the Brazilian bloom in December this would be optimal for fruit ripening before the onset of hot weather.

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