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Originally Posted by damaclese
well its now the end of June and the Bananas are showing there new found ability's to tolarait heat we just hit 101 this week a bit late this year but i knew it would come sooner or later
the ice creams are the tallest despite starting out with all the rest in the first batch but thats to be expected there now about 5 ft tall the Brazilian its growing the most robustly its leafs are so big it almost look like a fake plant its baby is just 4" shorter then the mom and looks like its going to be bigger well i would expect that since momma was in a pot for a year and baby has only known the good earth around its feet I'm defiantly watering allot so iv increased the feedings to weekly with Kellogg's organic thats 1 tbs a week for post and a bit more for the in ground ones i also dosed them with Iron weed
Iron supplement with sulfur things were not looking to bad but i thought the looked a bit limy in general and some of the non Banana plants like my grapes were defishintce showing some signs of iron deficiency so i decided i would do the entier property thats allot of iron! even thou the bananas have really increased there growth rate over last you i still think they arnt growing as fast as some one that lives in a wetter climate but for Vargas I'm happy hell I'm more then happy I'm ecstatic! I'm almost positive that there will be some kind of fruit later this year when the cold will get to it but iv got a plan to deal with that more about that later
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Mine are growing well also, and it has already hit 108f in my yard in the shade. There are now about 14 stalks that are fruiting. The latest being a saba. I was kind of hoping it would get taller before fruiting, its about 14 feet at the stem now, although it has three pups on it that are almost as tall which will probably wind up being taller than the mom. Its only been in the ground from a tissue culture for about 14 months.