11-21-2012, 03:51 PM
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Location: Penticton, BC, Okanagan Valley, Canada
Zone: Hardiness Zone 6
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Re: Here's what happens if you don't remove pups
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Originally Posted by PR-Giants
Thanks Olaf,
As I stated, I don't know the answer but that doesn't seem to explain why there are more roots under the water.
As you can see my soil doesn't drain too well and those roots have only been underwater for about 8 or 9 months.
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My specific experience with bananas is limited to raising some of them for 3 years and to what I
have observed during my visits to the tropics. The latter includes seeing bananas right at the
edges of rice fields on ground just inches above the waterline and only a few feet from the water's
edge. I have posted on this in other threads in this forum, when I thought that undue concern was
voiced about root rot. There was also a lady here posting about raising bananas in pots
completely submerged in water.
We must not discount, that there is a fair amount of air contained in water, which appears to explain,
that anaerobic decomposition happens generally in standing waters of about 4 feet in depth and more.
The concentration of the roots in the “soup” is probably caused by the nutrients contained
therein and the roots reaching for them.
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