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Old 07-16-2010, 02:37 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Default Re: Hydroponic banana growers sound off

It's been a while since I've posted so I thought I'd update my fellow hydro nerds on my plant. I had about 10 ensete ventricosums in a hydroponic system, a basjoo, and a super dwarf cavendish. All were doing excellent and growing very fast. I decided to transplant all the EV's and the basjoo to soil due to us moving to a new house and kept the SDC in its bubble bucket. The basjoo didnt do to well being transplanted and only 2 of the 10 EV's survived the switch. The SDC is still doing great in its bubble bucket I'm proud of the little guy.

This was my last hydroponic post with pics of what I had:
Hydopronic Bananas

Now its just the SDC:


Fred posing with the SDC when it first came in the mail before converting to hydroponics



Fred again with the same plant almost a year later but now the plant can eat Fred.



Sent up one nice looking pup.



Root system

I took alot of good advice from some members on here to include Fergus (good call on keeping PH between 5.5 and 6.0) which I'm glad to see his hydros are looking good. My next step is to get this thing to bloom the only problem is I dont know the life cycle of an SDC if this thing is even big enough.
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