Forum: Banana Seed Germination Forum
08-10-2012, 06:26 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 2,705
Re: Now everything's ready.
I am sure, you are a very good one. While your post was not up to "research grade", it was certainly
"research light". I hope, that you will chose a career in science. You certainly seem to lean...
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Forum: Banana Seed Germination Forum
08-10-2012, 05:06 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 2,705
Re: Now everything's ready.
Thank you, Soohan, This is exactly the kind of post, I would like to see more of in this forum.
I does not just tell us, what you have done, but how you did it in some detail. That makes it...
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Forum: Other Plants
08-09-2012, 11:12 PM
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Replies: 2,532
Views: 309,112
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Forum: Member Introductions
08-05-2012, 05:01 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,006
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Forum: Other Plants
08-01-2012, 10:15 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,423
Need advice on how to grow cherries from pits.
Need advice on how to grow cherries from pits.
Last year birds delivered some seeds of Nanking Cherries and deposited those seeds of the shrubs
/trees, which originate in the high UV environment of ...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-01-2012, 07:07 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,907
Re: Pup After Fruiting?
Okay, I cannot help to toss in my three bit's worth (Inflation strikes everywhere, even my
insignificant opinion has gone up in price): :)
Since fruiting is here in HZ6 out of the question, I raise...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-31-2012, 09:13 PM
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Replies: 67
Views: 14,534
Re: Coffee Grounds?
Keith and Brady,
you guys are splitting hairs. It is a well known fact, that nitrogen accelerates decomposition.
It is especially needed, when you want to add "hard cellulose" to the stuff to be...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-30-2012, 04:50 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,926
Re: New Double Needs Fertilizer
Quote:Osmocote 35-35-35 Unquote
That adds up to 105%. In other words the claimed sum of the active fertilizer is greater
than the whole bulk of it.
I have heard such figures to date only from...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-28-2012, 11:25 PM
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Replies: 67
Views: 14,534
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-28-2012, 09:54 PM
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Replies: 67
Views: 14,534
Re: Coffee Grounds?
Coffee grounds are like all other organic matter. They have to decompose or be processed
by dew worms to be absorbable by plants. There is no reason, why they cannot decompose
when scattered...
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Forum: Other Plants
07-28-2012, 07:00 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,470
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-28-2012, 06:20 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,004
Re: Easy way to transplant?
I like that stomping bit, and will certainly try it the next time with a plastic pot. Unfortunately my
next job on that line will be prying an oleander out of a huge ceramic pot. :(
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Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer
07-28-2012, 05:42 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 8,745
Re: Banana fuel
I am quoting below my post here: http://www.bananas.org/f310/using-miracle-grow-16064-2.html
QUOTE
The fertilizer industry is one of the biggest, but legal, rackets on this continent.
No matter how...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-23-2012, 05:44 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 3,071
Re: Dwarf / "Little Banana plants"
Musa Ornata
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=40755&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=40755&ppuser=7269)
For size: The tiger is about natural...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-22-2012, 12:08 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,256
Re: musa basjoo in Ajax ontario
That is still quite a bit. I spray irrigate the areas containing banana plants once every 48 hours
for 15 minutes during the nights and I live in the arid South Okanagan.
How much that is in...
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Forum: Other Plants
07-21-2012, 08:16 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,768
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-21-2012, 06:31 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,256
Re: musa basjoo in Ajax ontario
If I read you right, then that is 17 gal/plant/day (not liters???) That is huge! I do not think, that
you can drown a banana, as long as you have decent drainage, but you wash a lot of nutrients...
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Forum: Tiki Hut
07-10-2012, 10:47 AM
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Replies: 197
Views: 17,606
We had a rain storm last night
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=49639 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=49639)
Not often can you see th whole arc of the rainbow. I couldn't get the whole thing...
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Forum: Other Plants
07-10-2012, 12:27 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 5,004
My "tropical" planter seven weeks later
This is how it looks today:
As you can see, I had to make a few changes. The Dracena Compacta in the SW (lower left)
corner had to be moved to a shadier location and was replaced by a Castor Bean...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-08-2012, 02:02 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 5,425
Re: How much water for a new 25 gallon pot?
Of all the major languages English is the most simple (aside from some ridiculous spelling,
- see Mark Twain's "ghoti") and yet we seem to have great problems communicating in it and
grasp the...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-07-2012, 10:31 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 5,425
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-07-2012, 10:20 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 5,425
Unwarranted correction
Well, Tommy, you have confused me. In case of Chris' use, 'pre-moistened' means moistened before
use. 'Using it dry before moistening' could be described as "prior to moistening". Packaged peat...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-05-2012, 04:13 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 5,425
Re: How much water for a new 25 gallon pot?
I have never tried to compost in a pot, though I usually leave small bits of half decomposed grass or
leaves in the soil, if they happen to be there. They always seem to have disappeared. when I...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-04-2012, 05:55 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 5,425
Re: How much water for a new 25 gallon pot?
It is simple: Just like with 95% of all plants make sure you have good bottom drainage and then
pour in water until it starts coming out at the bottom of the pot. Then Stop!
If left too long the...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-01-2012, 10:26 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 2,550
Re: bananas indoor growing
I guess as long as you have sufficient light all bananas can be grown indoors, - until they get too tall.
I have done that with a basjoo in winter 2010 -2011 at a bright window with no artificial...
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