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Nice! dragr,
Been a muscle car afficionado since I came to this country during the "Dodge Revolution" period. But I've never raced in the tracks, just the streets. I still have what is considered one of the last true muscle cars, a 1972 Dodge Charger R/T SE, with a stock factory ordered 440 Magnum. My car rolled off the factory in 12/12/71. Cut-off date for the non-emissioned 440 was 12/19/71, a full week after mine rolled out. Also have a 70 Challenger Convertible (2nd owner) that will be retrofitted with an Indy 528 cid Hemi and Kiesler aluminum 5-speed tranny. I better stop, else . . . .

No, Tommy Chong is probably my age. Chong-Chong is the nickname my paternal grandmother used to call me, so they wouldn't have heard of him then. It was the middle of WWII, for God's sakes. As I grew older, the second "Chong" was dropped (maybe the first, LOL). When I came to this country, whenever I introduced myself to people, I'd have to explain how my name was pronounced 99% of the time. I stuck to doing that because that was the period of personal "identity". Until 1970, Seattle had massive layoffs and I couldn't get a job anywhere from Seatlle to Chicago to Philly to Cleveland. When I was in Chicago, after trying all the job openings in my level of engineering and failing to land a job, I decided to try executive positions in engineering. After my first introduction as "Chong", and getting the usual response, "Hello, John", I decided at that time that I would not waste his time explaining how to pronounce my name. I became "John" from that point on. I had great success interviewing with presidents of large corporations and they wined and dined me, as a matter of fact. Although now, with the Cheech and Chong fame, some people who know me as John are surprised when my relatives and very close friends call me Chong. I just tell them that it was because everyone had difficulty pronouncing Chong, that I would resort to John because that's what they thought I said. (Sorry about the long answer, I enjoy a particularly colorful life experiences.)

As you insisted . . . . back to bananas:
If you watered the plant over 3 days ago, it would be OK to dunk the plant now in water/fertilizer combination I described. Chances are the pockets of dry soil is still enveloping the roots closest to the corm.

You plant will not grow as fast now as it did in the summer. Particularly, if it's not in full sunlight. So, if it were me, I'd just put it next to a bright window from now until early spring. If your plant is actually a S.D. Cavendish, the tallest it will be is 3ft anyway. So, it's not like you're gonna have it's leaves rubbing against the ceiling or anything like that. Even if it's just the dwarf, in the winter, it would not achieve full height, either. Now this is assuming you have room for it next to a bright window. I had a house, once, where the dryer was next to a west facing window. I had 2 pots of satsuma oranges from New Orleans set on top of it. I harvested sweet oranges for 2 years, until work got in the way.

Growth is growth. Unless, it's deseased, like in unusual coloration, deformation of the leaves. The fact that the pup is trying to outgrow the parent, doesn't mean that the parent is dying. I bet you, that pup is getting more water on his side of the pot than the parent. Try dunking it even in water with Superthrive, then see what kind of reaction you get from it. To ensure that the area around the plant is not too dry, put the pot in a deep pan with 1/2"-3/4" pebbles. Put the pan over the pebbles, so that when you water it, the water runs out in thru the rocks. The rocks will help the water to evaporate and increase the humidity of the area around the plant. Do not let the roots of the plant get immersed in the water too long. If the qater level is over the root line of the plant, remove some of it so that it's just at the base of the pot.

I've received 12 new corms from various sources. The big ones are in 5-gal pots, the small ones in 1-gal. I even have 2 mangos and 2 coconuts in 5-gal pot each. They're inside the house right now that we don't have any electricity for about 3-1/2 days now(nasty 95-105 MPH winds tore up 50 year old trees and scatterred them over roadways and such. Maybe even power sub-stations). I will slowly bring them out to the green house, but I only keep my greenhouse at 58degF, anyway. But it beats the 28degF outside.

Your corms, put them in 5-gal containers for now and set them next to a window where they can get sunlight as well as room temperature. If your garage has a window, and does not get below 50degF, you can put a shelf flush with the window sill and put your plants there next to the window.

Gotta go now, so I can free up some wattage for heat to the house from the generator. Had to unplug one of the heaters while I'm on the computer so I don't overload my generator. I'll check with all y'all later.