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Forum: Other Plants 06-21-2024, 11:22 AM
Replies: 2,532
Views: 305,569
Posted By aruzinsky
Re: What is blooming in your garden today (other plants)?

After success with hedychium coronarium, last year I bought about 10 other varieties of hedychium. The first to bloom is Hedychium Giant Hybrid Yellow which was a surprise because it is the largest...
Forum: Other Plants 03-29-2024, 08:41 AM
Replies: 2,532
Views: 305,569
Posted By aruzinsky
Re: What is blooming in your garden today (other plants)?

Same here. You can buy plants in 4in pots at a price that is too high for me at:

https://kensphilodendrons.com/product/giant-hawaiian-travelers-palm-tree-ravenala-madagascariensis/
Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer 07-12-2023, 01:58 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 1,194
Posted By aruzinsky
DCPTA (2-diethylaminoethyl-3, 4-dichlorophenylether)

It's a Chinese plant growth regulator that I bought on Aliexpress about 5 years ago. I sprayed 0.5 g/gal on corn and canna and it improved the growth rate and size.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 06-13-2023, 09:03 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 565
Posted By aruzinsky
Re: Would you ask the seller to replace this Tropicana Banana?

I would look as healthy as the Little Prince banana that was shipped in the same box.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 06-11-2023, 11:35 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 565
Posted By aruzinsky
Would you ask the seller to replace this Tropicana Banana?

I bought musa 'Tropicana', musa 'Little Prince', and nepenthes 'St. Gaya' from Wellspring Gardens which arrived in the same box. Only the Tropicanna looks unhealthy. It is the plant on the...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-21-2023, 05:45 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,631
Posted By aruzinsky
Re: Growing banana plants from banana fruit without seeds.

You convinced me to not try it.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-21-2023, 12:45 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,631
Posted By aruzinsky
Re: Growing banana plants from banana fruit without seeds.

Do you think it's fake? The second method is easy enough to try without feeling like a fool, if it fails.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-20-2023, 09:06 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,631
Posted By aruzinsky
Growing banana plants from banana fruit without seeds.

Complicated way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv37EHggwlc

Simple way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22c6g_U94hY

And I thought that I've seen everything! Who isn't going to try this?
Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer 05-16-2023, 12:22 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 960
Posted By aruzinsky
HydraFiber is Great but

You can't buy pure HydraFiber retail. You can only buy it retail in adulterated form from manufacturers who pretend that adulteration is added value. Imagine a world in which you can't buy pure...
Forum: Other Plants 03-18-2023, 09:15 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,395
Posted By aruzinsky
Re: Heliconia Indica "Spectabilis' Progress Report

It's doing okay but nothing to brag about. The leaves shown above died and there are two new stalks, none with variegation.

The leaves are cupped. So are the leaves in photos from elsewhere. As...
Forum: Other Plants 01-22-2023, 11:04 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,382
Posted By aruzinsky
Re: Chloroform Improves Tomato Seed Germination

There are two conflicting hypothesis to explain why chloroform improves tomato seed germination:

1. As a solvent, chloroform removes growth inhibiting substances from the seeds.

2. Residual...
Forum: DIY - Gardening Do It Yourself 01-14-2023, 01:39 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 16,810
Posted By aruzinsky
Re: My Greenhouse Experiments with Light, Cooling and Temperature

You have to bear in mind that I'm 76 years old and in chronic pain. If I were young, I would build a swamp cooler which simultaneously cools and humidifies air. ...
Forum: DIY - Gardening Do It Yourself 01-14-2023, 08:32 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 16,810
Posted By aruzinsky
Re: My Greenhouse Experiments with Light, Cooling and Temperature

I have a dehumidifier in my basement and it uses about 600 watts of electricity to remove 3 gallons/day of water. I really hate what it does to my electric bill. I sometimes collect the water for...
Forum: DIY - Gardening Do It Yourself 01-12-2023, 12:40 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 16,810
Posted By aruzinsky
Re: My Greenhouse Experiments with Light, Cooling and Temperature

I was thinking about something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Ideal-Air-Humidifier-Portable-Industrial-Covers/dp/B01DL5DG1K/ref=sr_1_3?th=1

200 pints/day = 1 gallon/hour
Forum: DIY - Gardening Do It Yourself 01-12-2023, 09:44 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 16,810
Posted By aruzinsky
Re: My Greenhouse Experiments with Light, Cooling and Temperature

I don't use the heaters in the summer and I don't want extra humidification in the winter because the extra moisture would end up as extra condensation on the inner surface of the polycarbonate...
Forum: DIY - Gardening Do It Yourself 01-09-2023, 02:07 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 16,810
Posted By aruzinsky
Re: My Greenhouse Experiments with Light, Cooling and Temperature

Yes, and there are also high pressure spray atomizers, but, if you don't use distilled water, you get residue on everything. I don't mind getting this residue on leaves but I don't want it in my...
Forum: Other Plants 11-02-2022, 04:22 PM
Replies: 2,532
Views: 305,569
Posted By aruzinsky
Re: What is blooming in your garden today (other plants)?

Heliconia Psittacorum X Spathocircinata 'Keanea...
Forum: DIY - Gardening Do It Yourself 10-10-2022, 09:59 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 16,810
Posted By aruzinsky
Re: My Greenhouse Experiments with Light, Cooling and Temperature

No frosts near Chicago, yet. I already removed the shading. I still have to remove the capillary matting because there is no need for additional cooling and the increased humidity from the matting...
Forum: Other Plants 10-08-2022, 05:10 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,395
Posted By aruzinsky
Re: Heliconia Indica "Spectabilis' Progress Report

Yes, I bought it from PGH but I had trouble ordering it. Within one minute of getting an email announcing that 6 rhizomes were in stock, I tried to submit an order but PayPal wouldn't let me compete...
Forum: Other Plants 09-22-2022, 01:38 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,395
Posted By aruzinsky
Heliconia Indica "Spectabilis' Progress Report

Potted the rhizome on 8/9/22:

http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/Rubricaulis8-10-22.jpg

First leaf and second unfurling...
Forum: Other Plants 09-22-2022, 01:24 PM
Replies: 2,532
Views: 305,569
Posted By aruzinsky
Re: What is blooming in your garden today (other plants)?

Heliconia psittacorum 'Petra'

http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/HeliconiaPsiittacorumPetra2_9-22-22.jpg

http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/HeliconiaPsiittacorumPetra9-22-22.jpg

Grown from...
Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer 09-19-2022, 05:04 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,877
Posted By aruzinsky
Re: Test Your Coir with Corn Seeds

No, that's all there is.

I am using coir for tomato, musa and heliconia just fine. There is no need to test coir for these plants.
Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer 09-10-2022, 08:33 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 666
Posted By aruzinsky
Strigolactone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigolactone

It's the only known plant hormone to inhibit lateral bud growth. (Cytokinins stimulate lateral bud growth.) Theoretically, it would inhibit banana...
Forum: Ornamental Bananas 08-17-2022, 11:18 AM
Replies: 58
Views: 11,017
Posted By aruzinsky
Re: Resilient little lasiocarpas.

Now I have one with two small suckers blooming.

http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/MusellaLasiocarpa1_8-17-22.jpg

http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/MusellaLasiocarpa2_8-17-22.jpg
Forum: Other Plants 08-17-2022, 11:09 AM
Replies: 2,532
Views: 305,569
Posted By aruzinsky
Re: What is blooming in your garden today (other plants)?

Curcuma 'Baan Rai Red'

http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/CurcumaBaanRaiRed1_8-17-22.jpg

http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/CurcumaBaanRaiRed2_8-17-22.jpg

I bet you expected me to post a...
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