HulkSmash9798

Y’all ever use water soluble Potash 0-0-60 to add to a fertilization program for your bananas? I’ve been trying it out with All Purpose Jack’s 20-20-20 with Micronutrients water soluble fertilizer every 3 weeks. Am I over doing it?

Also, is their a trick to get a sword sucker to come up? I’m only getting water suckers with mine.

pitangadiego

Heavy fertilization does seem to simulate pupping. Water suckers seem to be somewhat random, but more prevalent on a weak or stunted parent. Each variety has it's own time to pup, some early in the parent's life cycle, and some quite late.

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HulkSmash9798

Thank you!

The banana plant I’m referring to is a Dwarf Cavendish. It’s my first banana plant. I bought it from a nursery called ‘TyTy’s Plant Nursery’. I was shipped a really small water sucker but I was ignorant at the time. It’s been six months and it’s hardly a foot tall lol. I won’t be buying from them again, that’s for sure. It produced suckers very fast and continues to do so. I’ve taken out a few of them to hopefully help the mother plant grow faster.

On the other hand, I got a Raja Puri corm from a trusted banana seller and it’s growing like crazy; must’ve been a sword sucker.

beam2050

dwarf cavendish pups alot when they are severely stressed or about to die. if your plant is only a foot tall then this is the case. i don't think your seller is to blame. i, from reading your post, would suspect to high of nitrogen. i once gave some miracle grow to a dc in a pot and killed it, but it put out about 20 pups before dieing.

i like my raja puri and i know them to be a more foregiving plant.

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sirdoofus

Ahhh, this might explain what happened to my indoor cavendish....all of a sudden it just started going south and there was nothing I could determine to be the cause.....never considered they might be more sensitive to fertilizers....interesting.

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beam2050

each variety has its own particular needs and limits. you have to be careful on how much you push them, sometimes less is better.

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npk of wood ash 0/1/3 to 0/3/7

npk of banana leaf ash 1.75/0.75/0.5

cincinnana

You're right, less is more.

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