Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer
10-08-2011, 05:56 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 7,187
Re: Whats the best fertilizer ?
Do a Google search for rock dust, chicken manure and bat manure.
Read the information so you understand why you want to use these instead of synthetic fertilizers that kill the life in the soil.
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
09-17-2011, 04:49 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 2,184
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
09-01-2011, 04:33 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 4,315
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
08-28-2011, 04:17 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,549
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Forum: Other Plants
08-28-2011, 04:14 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,995
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-21-2011, 07:41 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,414
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-21-2011, 05:05 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,414
Re: Nice page on Bananas.......
Pay attention to MediaHound, he speaks sooth.
No one can stop the use of any material posted on the Internet. Ferinstance: people still post and download Sony's music without paying, even after they...
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Forum: Tiki Hut
06-26-2011, 07:39 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,611
Re: Skype
How old is your computer and what equipment are you missing?
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Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer
05-12-2011, 11:53 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 5,124
Re: Potassium Phosphite
Synthetic fertilizers kill life in the soil, from microbes that produce CO2 to earthworms. These synthetic fertilizers are used by factory farms to produce large, heavy produce and big crops. There...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-07-2011, 06:12 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,971
Re: Need to fertilize
Try chicken manure, it has been referred to as the rocket fuel of fertilizers and it does not kill the microbes in the soil like regular bagged fertilizer. As for pH, frankly, I have not bothered...
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Forum: Other Plants
05-05-2011, 10:14 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 6,781
Re: Quito
This started by Dr. Steve stating: I read about a coconut palm that can grow in colder climates. He did not say, "I read about a Bolivian mountain coconut that can grow in colder climates that is...
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Forum: Other Plants
05-05-2011, 07:48 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 6,781
Re: Quito
This is the same reference as the original post, but the site does not state they are selling what most people would call a coconut tree.
There is a tree that grows in the tropics that is called a...
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Forum: Other Plants
05-05-2011, 05:24 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 6,781
Re: Quito
So then, this is not a coconut palm and does not demonstrate how a coconut palm can grow outside of tropical latitudes but merely illustrates how certain palms can grow there.
Unless I missed...
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Forum: Other Plants
05-04-2011, 10:33 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 6,781
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Forum: Other Plants
05-04-2011, 08:21 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 6,781
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Forum: Other Plants
05-04-2011, 08:15 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 6,781
Re: Quito
The coconut of this link, An Edible Palm Tasting Fire Flower, refers to is Parajubaea torallyi, information of which is found here: PACSOA - Parajubaea torallyi...
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Forum: Other Plants
05-04-2011, 07:35 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 6,781
Re: Quito
That's the biggest hammer I've ever seen. Is it the hammer of Thor?
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Forum: Other Plants
05-04-2011, 05:26 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 6,781
Re: Quito
Here is the trick: it may grow, but will it yield? Unless there is some amazing GM involved, which is unlikely since it is not a big commercial crop to the industrialists, there is a latitude above...
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Forum: Banana Identification
04-16-2011, 06:47 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 5,412
Re: New member with basic questions
The price of shipping would be ridiculous. There has got to be a place nearby that sells both, at least the chicken manure. Also, Google "sea weed, fertilizer," that stuff works very well.
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Forum: Banana Identification
04-11-2011, 04:55 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 5,412
Re: New member with basic questions
In Ft. Lauderdale - - - I recall there being a place a block or two north of SE 17th, somewhere near Cordova Rd. If you are way north downtown, try the Jello Pages. The brand name is Black Gold....
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Forum: Banana Identification
04-10-2011, 04:27 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 5,412
Re: New member with basic questions
Bananas are heavy feeders. Buy chicken manure and/or rock dust. Rock dust will show a difference in the health of plants in two weeks. With rock dust you should not have to reapply for five years....
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
03-02-2011, 04:44 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,627
Re: Bad Timing Stored dormant...Blooming
Dear Bad Timing,
Sometimes I think people are bananas for trying to raise an Orinoco up north. But putting that aside, the odds are that that great plant of yours, which makes the best tostones,...
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Forum: Fruit
11-03-2010, 12:51 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 7,107
Re: Peach Tree
So it was not too much or too little H2O Not surprising.
Some of the best peaches and apricots to be found are grown on small, peasant farms in the Urals. These farmers hardly have two kopeks to...
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Forum: Fruit
11-02-2010, 05:41 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 7,107
Re: Peach Tree
In humans there is more to health than a few amino acids and vitamins. The importance of minerals is almost completely neglected. So it is with plants.
Look up rock dust on the Internet and learn...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-10-2010, 06:56 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 6,394
Re: Ae Ae Albino
More than having a "parent," the albino should be the offspring of a colony of the green and the variegated. When the colony, which behaves like one plant, is large enough, it will support the...
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