louis14
03-01-2018, 10:28 PM
A good morning to all :08:
Having mastered the transplanting of sword suckers straight into new planting fields, we are now in the final planning stage of building a polytunnel so as to allow pups to developp under less stress, under controlled sunlight and benefitting from mist watering.
The pups will all be put into their individual 5 x 10" black bag, put on tables about 40cm off the ground, in the polytunnel, with a sun shading net to keep the sun under control, maybe in the shading range of 50% for starts, that ratio can be decreased later on so as to get the plants used to direct sunlight..
This 50 m2 open ended polytunnel is planned to be able to receive about 3000 pups in their bags. Bags will be filled with a 50% mix of leaf compost and local soil. A solar pump, connected to a timer will be feeding mist sprinklers that will ensure a suitable humidity level of the soil mix in the bags.
The idea of this is to move the thousands of Gros Michel pups we have right now into this halfway house, nurse them to developp good roots and leaf strength, and then, once the rainy season has started, which should be in three months, move them into a new ready and irrigated field.:03:
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=62855 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=62749&ppuser=26930)
I wonder if there is a minimum size for pups we can move. We litterally have thousands of pups, and of course, we intend to leave the largest one in the ground near the mother pseudostem for the next crop. But we would really like to dig the rest of them all up. So how small can they be to support the transplant into bags and greenhouse? We would of course like to keep the failure ratio to a minimum and will only be transplanting sword suckers. Thanks :bananas_b
Having mastered the transplanting of sword suckers straight into new planting fields, we are now in the final planning stage of building a polytunnel so as to allow pups to developp under less stress, under controlled sunlight and benefitting from mist watering.
The pups will all be put into their individual 5 x 10" black bag, put on tables about 40cm off the ground, in the polytunnel, with a sun shading net to keep the sun under control, maybe in the shading range of 50% for starts, that ratio can be decreased later on so as to get the plants used to direct sunlight..
This 50 m2 open ended polytunnel is planned to be able to receive about 3000 pups in their bags. Bags will be filled with a 50% mix of leaf compost and local soil. A solar pump, connected to a timer will be feeding mist sprinklers that will ensure a suitable humidity level of the soil mix in the bags.
The idea of this is to move the thousands of Gros Michel pups we have right now into this halfway house, nurse them to developp good roots and leaf strength, and then, once the rainy season has started, which should be in three months, move them into a new ready and irrigated field.:03:
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=62855 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=62749&ppuser=26930)
I wonder if there is a minimum size for pups we can move. We litterally have thousands of pups, and of course, we intend to leave the largest one in the ground near the mother pseudostem for the next crop. But we would really like to dig the rest of them all up. So how small can they be to support the transplant into bags and greenhouse? We would of course like to keep the failure ratio to a minimum and will only be transplanting sword suckers. Thanks :bananas_b