Tall Orinoco Flower stalk roting slowly
Good morning everybody,
Maybe somebody on the board can help me.
I have a big mat of tall orinoco.
A nice bunch on it is almost ready to harvest but there is no yellow finger on it yet.
The stem flowered at the end of april and now (at the end of september) there is no flower remaining on the stalk, only a kind of "empty tail".
One week ago I remarked that the flower stalk began to become brown and mushy. I am afraid this could propagate toward the bunch and make it rot.
I have read somewhere (I don't remember where but it was on a scientific paper dealing with bananas) that dipping the stalk briefly with a solution of bleach at 60 % may stop the roting process.
Have you heard of this method ? or have you got a better advice to solve this situation and save my orinoco bunch.
I will post pix this week-end and I am in a kind of 9-10 climate zone.
Thanks for help,
Phil
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Phil
In the ground outside :
- Dwarf Brazilian
- Tall orinoco
- Rajapuri
- Manzano
- Tall namwah aka "US-ice cream"
- Dwarf orinoco.
Waiting to be planted :
- Goldfinger
- Mysore
- Pisang mas
- "Figue family"
- Dwarf namwah.
Just for fun in pots :
- Basjoo
-Sikkimensis red tiger
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