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Name: Olaf
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Re: What root rot?
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Originally Posted by Richard
Olaf,
The main problem was with novice indoor gardeners. As you are no doubt aware, the humidity in a house is much lower than outdoors. This in turn causes the top layer of soil in a pot to dry out quickly. A novice gardener will notice this, and thinking the plant needs water will give the plant a drink. If they do this several times a week under the lower light input of indoors with a moisture retention soil, root rot is going to happen.
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There is no way, that you can equal the sogginess of the plants in the original picture
by just watering a few times every week, even by watering every day. I have that
photo as evidence. Where is yours, other than speculation on the "inexperience"
of indoor gardeners, which only serves to propagate the popanz of root rot, which
is impressed onto every newcomer to this forum, and which does not exist under
the conditions, I have specified herein.
I do not turn back, if a black cat crosses my intended pass, but I do not walk under
ladders, if someone works above, who might drop a tool or implement on my head.
That makes sense, because a wrench falling on my head hurts. Being scared of root
rot in a plant, which appears perfectly fine with "wet feet" does not make sense,
and justifying that fear with contrived speculation about country of location does not
make sense either
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Originally Posted by Richard
Gabe pointed out 3 times in this paragraph, under tropical conditions that standard time is 9 months or less,
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Of course, if maturation is not interrupted by a cool period, it continues on. That
makes sense, but has zilch to do with root rot. Here the growth period is not even
long enough to bring any banana to bloom, but we still do not experience root rot.
Though I have never stuck a banana's "feet" into water, while it was "beheaded".
Olaf
PS: Frankly I have repeated myself more often, than I am comfortable with, and
unless you come up with some solid evidence on root rot, other than 'hearsay' and
speculation, I am bowing out of this discussion
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