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Old 01-23-2009, 09:01 AM   #21 (permalink)
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my tallest are my Ae Ae at maturity it grows to 20 ft fallowed closely by my Ice Cream or Blue Java which ranges from 15ft to 18ft at maturity so sandy you better build a taller green house LOL and on the topic of time to Bloom if the Ice Cream doesn't flower in 3 years its never going to the key is the size of the pots if its under 32" its doubtful that it will flower but and you all know theres always a but! iv heard of people getting them to bloom in smaller pots so it just goes to show you that Faith is a big factor in what plants do not to get all metaphysical on y'all but first comes thought then comes action this gos for plants to
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I bet out there in Arizona you can't get too much water on those bananas. It seems like they take a ton of water here in Indiana in the summer and we actually have humidity, very high humidity a lot of the summer. And not nearly as hot and strong sun as you get.

Island Cassie, I sure hope my ice cream banana isn't a clone from the same batch as yours! I don't think I have room for bananas that big in the winter. It's getting iffy now as big as it is, and its growing back quick in the greenhouse. I've been trying to control it by giving it less water, with limited success. Partly because that doesn't seem to work as well as I thought it would, and partly because I feel sorry for it every now and then and water it! I don't know if I'm ever going to get bananas on it, because I thought I'd already have them by now...
Well I guess I will find when the hot weather gets here. I will put 2 4gpm emitters per palnt and double the water doses to 80 gallons every other day. If they take that ok I may increase further. As well as adding the misters.
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I have a well so I dont actually get a water bill. If more water will make them grow faster and larger, thats no problem for me!
I just attended a water conservation talk last week and here in Texas before long the government is going to regulate how much water folks can pull from their wells in a given amount of time. It sounds like there will be stiff fines if one uses more than he or she is allotted. I grew up out in the country and we had a well also. Unfortunatley, with our growing population the days of "free and unlimited" water are about over...even for those with wells. I think that, along with global warming and energy issues, that water shortages will be one of the biggest challenges we have to deal with. Probably sooner rather than later.
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I just attended a water conservation talk last week and here in Texas before long the government is going to regulate how much water folks can pull from their wells in a given amount of time. It sounds like there will be stiff fines if one uses more than he or she is allotted. I grew up out in the country and we had a well also. Unfortunatley, with our growing population the days of "free and unlimited" water are about over...even for those with wells. I think that, along with global warming and energy issues, that water shortages will be one of the biggest challenges we have to deal with. Probably sooner rather than later.
The wells cost over 40k, I would hope that I am unaffected due to a grandfather clause. Otherwise they are going to have a fight on their hands! What are they going to tell me next, that I have used up the air available on my land? It needs to stop somewhere. I am already required to have the well on a separate meter and am billed at 10 times the going rate for the electric. I think that is compensation enough. I am already tempted to power the well with the solar array I am having installed on my house. They can bill me all they want as soon as they give me my 40k back!

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that are some huge musas
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The wells cost over 40k, I would hope that I am unaffected due to a grandfather clause. Otherwise they are going to have a fight on their hands! What are they going to tell me next, that I have used up the air available on my land? It needs to stop somewhere. I am already required to have the well on a separate meter and am billed at 10 times the going rate for the electric. I think that is compensation enough. I am already tempted to power the well with the solar array I am having installed on my house. They can bill me all they want as soon as they give me my 40k back!
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I just attended a water conservation talk last week and here in Texas before long the government is going to regulate how much water folks can pull from their wells in a given amount of time. It sounds like there will be stiff fines if one uses more than he or she is allotted. I grew up out in the country and we had a well also. Unfortunatley, with our growing population the days of "free and unlimited" water are about over...even for those with wells. I think that, along with global warming and energy issues, that water shortages will be one of the biggest challenges we have to deal with. Probably sooner rather than later.
Reading this makes me sick. I come from Europe, Slovakia, there is a delta of Danube on our southern border (sand filters the water and rich humus soil holds it below our land) and so there's the largest clean, no need to rafine and free source of drinking water. If I dig a hole of about 7 meters anywhere in south Slovakia, pure and fine water will be down there for sure.

This land has cost us much however, we have been fighting, literally and poetically with our southern border neighbour - Hungary for thousand of years. Even now the hatred between the nations is terrible and makes a mess of the European Union. It's not likely to stop, sadly. And there's enough water for the whole Europe, Russia and Middle East down there...

See this (it's short in English, dunno why ) Žitný ostrov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm not sure, how they want to regulate the water pump offs, they would have to place meters on your pumpingout devices, but there's no law allowing such intrusion to one's property (at least in Slovakia). And there will never be

Hope it will go well for you though ... Good luck.
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Old 01-24-2009, 10:25 AM   #27 (permalink)
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Yes Jack quite unbeliveble here in Europe. Meters on wells, cant imagine!
We pays that otherwise. Expencive food, etc...
By the way folks whats the cost of Chicitas(Eqador) in yours countries? We came up to approxim. 1.5-1.8$ for kg.
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