Steve in France

Thanks guys , Bigdog that's more or less what I suspected. My Uncle in the UK is very good at flowering plants in pots and using just the right amount of fert, he wins Championships all the time and has done for the past 40years ,they even made him a Judge so he would not win all the time. :-)
Anyway I guess I better start learning the tricks since I want to get some Bananas here in D.C. before we move on in four years time.At the moment I have no Greenhouse but perhaps I can sort one out. I do have a space I could do MH lamps and I also have a cool dry crawl space for dormant plants.
I guess I'll try the long slow fert approach with flushing the compost every few months to get rid of fert salts and other toxins that build up with constant fertilizer application.
Later
Steve

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