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08-15-2012, 06:25 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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ice cream steams keeps breaking! what's up?
For the 2nd week in a row the leaves keep collapsing the tree is 5 feet tall. new leaf is 5 feet long one leaf a week i am using banana fuel 1/4 cup per five gallons of water once a month is there something else i need to do? I am getting disapointed.
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Re: ice cream steams keeps breaking! what's up?
My stems just hang w/ 5-6ft of p-stem but that's only cause they have no support.. I don't know if your on limestone bed over there or not but if your not I'd put a half cup of granual lime around it every 4 months. As Tony says banana fuel isn't always the total cure. I like mixing fish emulsion w/ my banana fuel cause it gets more growth on everything I put it on. I have piles of shells on top of my most of my beds as well. :^)
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Re: ice cream steams keeps breaking! what's up?
Ok twice during our growing season. I got this from a 75 y/o farmer here, it works, and I can say my stuff grows. The 1st reason is the ground needs it. The 2nd is there are established trees that rob the banana's soil of nutrients. So unless a banana is 150 ft from a well established tree ( a hundred foot oak or pecan) it gets lime twice a growing season.
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I would not recommend changing some things about the soil before testing it first, some things are more difficult to remove after you have added them. Most soils do not need added lime to grow bananas. Does the 75 year old farmer have a banana plantation ? Good Luck and Happy Growing
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The soils has been tested and is ample for growing I have made the recommended ammendments (IE) Compost. the soil is a clay type base. There is limestone 20 inches below
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