Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
Yesterday, 09:34 PM
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Re: Pale Stunted Leaves on a Raja Puri
Looks like Boron or Calcium deficiency.
Although present in the soil, the uptake of these minerals may be impaired due to rapid growth caused by excess nitrogen or rainfall/irrigation. High PH can...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
Yesterday, 09:19 PM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
Yesterday, 09:04 PM
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Re: Potting Soil for Florida Variegated
I agree with Iowa ... commercial potting soil is OK ... with or without fertilizer. Some of the Dollar store brands do not have or has very little fertilizer.
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
Yesterday, 06:16 PM
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Pale Stunted Leaves on a Raja Puri
I have six banana plants in my back yard. Two of them have recently started putting out pale, stunted, and mis-shapen leaves. The mystery banana's main pseudostem looks good, but the leaves of the...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
Yesterday, 06:03 PM
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
Yesterday, 03:38 PM
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Re: Dwarf Cavendish Brown and Yellow Spots
It’s just angry for repotting, it has to allocate its resources to its roots and not to the leaves until the roots are more strongly established. Usually after repotting the plant requires less...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
Yesterday, 03:32 PM
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Replies: 5
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Re: Potting Soil for Florida Variegated
I got mine as a sword pup rhizome with a cut stem and it took almost an entire month for it to push out of the old stem.
Here's what worked for me, I got some really good potting soil and did a...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
Yesterday, 03:07 PM
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Dwarf Cavendish Brown and Yellow Spots
Hi! Thanks for clicking my post. I have a very beloved dwarf cavendish, and I recently repotted as the roots were growing out of drainage holes. I am not sure if this is a sunburn, it’s angry at me...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
Yesterday, 10:21 AM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-15-2020, 11:15 PM
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Replies: 5
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Potting Soil for Florida Variegated
So after giving up on e-bay, I finally placed an order for Variegated Florida from a Thailand shop about a month ago. The plant is due to ship later this month, (EMS of course!)...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-15-2020, 09:54 PM
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Replies: 293
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Re: Donetta
I did remove the pups. I would like for Mother to go ahead and do her 'thing. It was when I saw she was making pups that I noticed that her growth declined, like her strength was being sapped. ...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
06-15-2020, 08:20 PM
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Replies: 12
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Re: 3 sick bananas
The corm is the white potato looking thing. IT IS the banana plant. the pstem is just a growing limb & a collection of leaves. The soil line is where the pstem turns white at the bottom. It...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
06-15-2020, 08:08 PM
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Re: Self Watering Containers
Banana plant roots need air! So when the pot soil mix is course & fast draining, as needed by the plants, the soil will not have the capillary ability to draw water up from the bottom of the pot. ...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-15-2020, 06:38 PM
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Replies: 6
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Re: Winter Planning
Check out Brians Botanicals a few miles south of you....will hold your plants.
I did a plant society refurbish at the KY:08: fairgrounds.......rose garden.
Breaking out the grill means .....do a...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
06-15-2020, 06:29 PM
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Replies: 12
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Re: 3 sick bananas
Looking fine......stay the course.....
Newly planted plants will take time to adjust......
Give 30 days + for the plant to sort itself out.
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-15-2020, 05:46 PM
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Replies: 293
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Re: Donetta
It might? You can try. Or it might be better to leave the pups on so if you DO dig the pups, and the mother does anyway, then it would be longer for you to get fruit
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
06-15-2020, 05:44 PM
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Replies: 12
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Re: 3 sick bananas
Not sure. It might be good to leave it. I would dig around the plant and inspect the corm and the roots, without digging it up. Btw corm is the mass that the roots come out of.
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
06-15-2020, 05:18 PM
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Forum: Banana Identification
06-15-2020, 04:42 PM
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Orinoco?
I’m assuming this is a regular Orinoco but maybe not. What ya think.
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
06-15-2020, 04:29 PM
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Replies: 12
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Re: 3 sick bananas
Ya. Rot or choking. I would cut a couple inches off the top. If the center is still black, brown, or otherwise not completely white, keep going. If it goes all the way to the corm (roots) then the...
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Forum: Banana Identification
06-15-2020, 03:00 PM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-15-2020, 01:10 PM
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Replies: 8
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Re: Yet another new guy?
Mari:
Thanks, that was the problem, the image files were too big. Did a bit of photoshopping and server seems happy now LOL
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Forum: Member Introductions
06-15-2020, 12:47 PM
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Replies: 4
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Re: New banana owner
welcome to banana.org, take some time and read some.of the older post, their is a wealth of info
Happy growing,
Darla
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-15-2020, 12:30 PM
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Replies: 11
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Re: Telephone pole AE AE’s
What is going to happen to the two huge stalks? Or are you going to leave those there and just move the pups? They look AMAZING! Eventually I want to add an ae ae to my collection........
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