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Richard · 08-12-2009, 12:18 AM

O.K., so that's about 40 lbs of Moringa tree leaf plus 40 lbs of Comfrey leaf (both dried) per banana plant per year. By the way, these plants don't manufacture the potash from thin air, so you still have to feed the Moringa and Comfrey potash so that they can pass it on to the bananas. Further, once the bananas uptake the potassium you can't recover more than about 1/4 of it, so you are operating at a perpetual loss. It would be much simpler to feed the bananas a mineral-source potash in the first place.

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