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LilRaverBoi · 07-31-2012, 06:41 PM

If the pot is indoors, I would be a little more stringent on watering. However, if it's outdoors and the top inch or more is bone dry, feel free to water. Maybe water less when you do water. For that size of pot, maybe half a gallon to a gallon per time you water is probably appropriate.

When my bananas were outdoors in the summer in the past, in 25 gallon pots, I would water a gallon once or twice a day, as needed (when top few inches were dry) with complete disregard to soil moisture lower than this or near the base of the pot. Basic rule I use: if the top inch or two is dry, water 1 gallon....do this as often as it needs it to be done.

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