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Old 01-04-2014, 04:50 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Default Re: My Dc Has So Many Damn Fingers Growing!!! Too Bad They Wont Ever Grow To Full Siz

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Originally Posted by Viper1436 View Post
I'm lost, why do some of the flowers turn into bananas and the rest not?
With banana cultivars like Dwarf Cavendish small fingers are common, in the image below hands and fingers are reduced in size and have become hermaphroditic before the male flower.


Dwarf Cavendish



Small underdeveloped fingers can be caused by environment, less than favorable growing conditions will cause stress and reduce yield for example cold temperatures, low lighting, too much or too little water are just some of the factors that can affect bunch weight. There is a direct link between K (Potassium) and the amount of hands, size of fingers and the time it takes for a bunch to mature. That being said adding more K does not always equal larger bunches because there are other factors that can reduce K uptake and affect bunch weight.

I am not a cold weather basement growing banana expert, to me they look fine and I would follow Migael's advice leave it alone unless you start to see signs of mold.





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