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Re: I pulled out my Manzano.

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Originally Posted by beam2050 (Post 349781)

well dont give up there are other alternatives.

my manzano's and my gros michal, which i think is a dwarf, guit growing good while the cow manure and compost was good [not used up]. i tried putting fresh cow and compost on top with little effect. so i am working with compost tea. but have not done so yet because both are freshly replanted.

but thanks to hurricane erma, i might have stumbled upon a different way of planting. 10 mats so far, planted with 8 different varieties of bananas has been working fantastically in my yard and my soil for most plants. it takes me a week and a half to prepare a hole for a banana. i am working on hole number 11 as we speak.

at this time i am not giving up any information until i know more about what i am doing. maybe november. and i will probably not know totally for 2 to 3 years.

thanks for turning me around about the ph meter, in this it was extremely helpful.

what is your moisture reading the day after it rains? 3 days?

Yeah I think bananas want a lot of organic matter, and this spot is kinda in a lowish area as far as water pooling goes, but it would always drain real fast. The leaves were always folded as if it's too hot even when I would water it! But a dwarf cavendish I had pretty close to it was doing great. I don't have a moisture meter, I checked the pH of my soil using a method I found for the digital meters. My pH is almost neutral.

I'll be interested to see how your new method turns out! A mat of namwah I is doing really really well and water pools around there when it rains, but again drains very well. So I just piled up compost around it, and the feeder roots are coming up into the compost it's really cool to see it just LOVES compost.

Re: I pulled out my Manzano.

get a moisture meter. sounds like you are next to the same as me. i run a 7. 8, in the new holes when it has been dry for a long period of time i run up to a 5. now it hasnt rained for 4 days here and outside of the hole i peg at dry. in the hole i peg wet.

Re: I pulled out my Manzano.

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Originally Posted by beam2050 (Post 349783)

Yeah I think the sand just drains too well, cooking the roots maybe? I should get the meter.

Re: I pulled out my Manzano.

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Originally Posted by Janelle525 (Post 349784)

Yeah I think the sand just drains too well, cooking the roots maybe? I should get the meter.

yes, i bought a moisture meter from lowes that doe's well enough, so i bought a digital meter from ebay to back it up. but it's faulty, shows 7/neutral all the time. so tomorrow i will buy another.

one reason behind it is, after it rains all my mats planted this way go back to a ph reading of 7.8. so it is well draining.