Zacarias
04-21-2008, 01:41 AM
Hey all,
I come here because you guys rock! Anyway, the picture below is a unknown small nanner that had some yellowish leaves a few weeks ago and now a lot of them have turn crisp brown on the edges, even the new leaf. The surface looks dry in the pic, but trust me, it gets plenty of water...if not too much?
The scoop is, I water it in it's pot about everyother day. I did fertilize it like every two weeks 10-10-10, but I'm concerned that I may have been overfertilizing it, given that it's in a container. I also discovered it has bad spider mites or aphids (couldn't see webbing) and so I first sprayed it with pyrethrin, and then like a few days later, I sprayed soapy water.
I'm trying to get a handle on weather the spider mites caused all this damage or if the chemicals I sprayed had something to do with it. The mist it now UNDER the leaves too (that part is very important I found out), and I have a large plate with water and pebbles underneath now. Hopefully this will help keep away the mites in our dry Phoenix weather.
Even the pups look sad now. I don't know if anyone can notice anything wrong right away from the pic or if I should keep trying to keep away the mites and see if the banana gets over it with new leaves? Thanks guys.
Zach
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=9258&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=9258&ppuser=401)
A rose that bloomed yesterday here.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=9257&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=9257&ppuser=401)
I come here because you guys rock! Anyway, the picture below is a unknown small nanner that had some yellowish leaves a few weeks ago and now a lot of them have turn crisp brown on the edges, even the new leaf. The surface looks dry in the pic, but trust me, it gets plenty of water...if not too much?
The scoop is, I water it in it's pot about everyother day. I did fertilize it like every two weeks 10-10-10, but I'm concerned that I may have been overfertilizing it, given that it's in a container. I also discovered it has bad spider mites or aphids (couldn't see webbing) and so I first sprayed it with pyrethrin, and then like a few days later, I sprayed soapy water.
I'm trying to get a handle on weather the spider mites caused all this damage or if the chemicals I sprayed had something to do with it. The mist it now UNDER the leaves too (that part is very important I found out), and I have a large plate with water and pebbles underneath now. Hopefully this will help keep away the mites in our dry Phoenix weather.
Even the pups look sad now. I don't know if anyone can notice anything wrong right away from the pic or if I should keep trying to keep away the mites and see if the banana gets over it with new leaves? Thanks guys.
Zach
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=9258&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=9258&ppuser=401)
A rose that bloomed yesterday here.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=9257&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=9257&ppuser=401)