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Banana Peels.
To have a measurable effect on a single banana plant or fruit tree, you will need 5 pounds of composted peel: think about how light a single dried banana peel is! To provide one year's worth of potash to the plant you will need at least 50 pounds of composted peel.
I started with a store-bought banana, 7 inches long not counting the stem.
Peeling the banana, I weighed:
Fresh fruit alone: 160 grams (yum!)
Fresh peel alone: 64 grams
Drying the peel at 180 deg-F in a convection oven for 3 hours:
Dried peel: 8 grams
So that peel was 87.5% water, which seems about right.
How many peels in 5 pounds?
5 pounds = 2268 grams, so there are 283.5 of those peels in 5 pounds!
If you want to fertilize a banana plant solely with banana peels, you’ll need about 50 pounds composted banana peels = 2835 peels of the variety I tested.
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Originally Posted by bencelest
so Assuming that there are 10 bananas in one bunch , there will be 283.5 bunches you have to consume.
At Costco the price of one bunch being $1.30 or .33/lb therefore it costs $368.55 for the fertilizer.
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