ewitte
07-13-2008, 05:22 PM
1. I moved it to a larger 20gal container (I put holes at the bottom) so its pretty normal for change of container to cause the leaves to start falling right? Picture 1 is the day I moved it into the new container (it was in a 7.5gal container when I purchased it about a week ago) and picture 2 is 3 days later (today). One leaf is almost completely gone and another is starting to go.
2. I'm concerned about watering. People say banana plants want quite a bit of water in hot climates but other times they say don't over water because it causes to roots to rot pretty quickly. Picture 1 was on a very rainy/windy day. The last 2 days have been around 98F and mostly sunny (I'm in the Houston area). I gave it water about 7:00am this morning and again when the surface soil was dry at 10:30am and left it alone the rest of the day.
3. What is that in picture 3,4? Picture 3 is attached to the plant and 4 was laying in one of the leaves.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=11315 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=11315&ppuser=3805)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=11316 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=11316&ppuser=3805)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=11317 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=11316&size=big&ppuser=3805)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=11318 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=11318&ppuser=3805)
2. I'm concerned about watering. People say banana plants want quite a bit of water in hot climates but other times they say don't over water because it causes to roots to rot pretty quickly. Picture 1 was on a very rainy/windy day. The last 2 days have been around 98F and mostly sunny (I'm in the Houston area). I gave it water about 7:00am this morning and again when the surface soil was dry at 10:30am and left it alone the rest of the day.
3. What is that in picture 3,4? Picture 3 is attached to the plant and 4 was laying in one of the leaves.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=11315 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=11315&ppuser=3805)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=11316 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=11316&ppuser=3805)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=11317 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=11316&size=big&ppuser=3805)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=11318 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=11318&ppuser=3805)