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Old 08-04-2009, 08:26 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Default Re: First Banana Plant

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Originally Posted by coub View Post
Thanks Fergus,so you leave the bottom leaves on although they loo tatty and take the middle leaves out [they are brown around the edges].I have also read that you take ALL the leaves off for overwintering this seems a shame to destroy all these lovely big leaves
hello,
i wait a bit for the leaves to start to get brown throughout and once the leaf starts to droop down and pull away from the pseudostem, then i definitely clip it off. i notice spider mites like the dying leaves and i have to watch out for them since i am growing indoors.

for the winter, i do believe people clip off all the leaves. but, you may need to do more than that to prevent the plant from dying off entirely. i dont really know though.


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