Can I make potted banana plants grow faster with a heat pad?
 

I have a regular seed tray heat mat designed to heat up seedlings, but seems to be a bit too strong for most seedlings so I've decided to try using it on potted banana plants. Will the additional heat help them grow faster?

I'm not sure if it requires the air temperature to be warmer as well. My little mekong giants which I attempted to deep plant last fall died so I was forced to buy new ones and I want them to fill out their pots as soon as possible so that I could get them in the ground, and big enough to be well off on their own.

Here's how they were as of last week.

Re: Can I make potted banana plants grow faster with a heat pad?
 

Heat helps

Re: Can I make potted banana plants grow faster with a heat pad?
 

Keep in mind that the sun can really warm up the pots. When I leave my mango seedlings outside in the sun they get really warm, even when the temperatures are in the 70s.

Re: Can I make potted banana plants grow faster with a heat pad?
 

Yes works for anything. I have a rambutan seedling I watered it and the water wasn't draining perfectly leaves were rotting so I put it back on the heat mat and in a day it perked up. might put my gros Michael's on it too. I'll see how they're doing.

Re: Can I make potted banana plants grow faster with a heat pad?
 

Yep, definitely it helps. If you keep the root zone around 75-80 degrees, the whole plant will grow faster.

Re: Can I make potted banana plants grow faster with a heat pad?
 

Those look like water suckers.

Yeah, HEAT, by all means, will make them grow. Sunlight helps a lot too but having them in heat in the shade they'll grow, just not as fast or as vibrant.

The size of the container does make a difference. I put a Orinoco, what turned out to be a water sucker, in a clay pot a few years ago and it never got over a foot tall.

Re: Can I make potted banana plants grow faster with a heat pad?
 

I'm starting them out in smaller pots, and I'm trying to do whatever I can to make them grow faster, and we are still relatively cool with days usually in the 60s so I guess there's no problem at all with additional soil heat given that at night it drops into the 40s.

Re: Can I make potted banana plants grow faster with a heat pad?
 

wow i had no idea heat pad would work! thats cool

Re: Can I make potted banana plants grow faster with a heat pad?
 

Yes i think it is possible but there are rare chances of the getting success. Here the plants might grow faster with a heat pad so try it will give positive results.