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Old 09-28-2009, 06:40 AM   #24 (permalink)
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Default Re: Look at the Coloring on this Ae Ae !!!!

Tog wrote that variegation would be completely absent with good nutrition. That is a big step from a little more or less white due to fertilization and even that has skeptics. I've watched my two Ae Ae plants pretty closely and sometimes I've fertilized them to see if they would get more green but I also have seen leaves get more green on their own. I haven't fertilized one Ae Ae for most of the year and it still has been getting more green lately. Jordon claims Ae Ae do best with alkaline soils and most others say they do better with acidic soils (I believe Brian's is doing about the best of any I've seen and he has acidic conditions). I think there are many things that we don't know the cause of but attribute certain things based on experiences carried out in conditions where controls are not adequate to really identify cause and effect.

That's it, I need to get at least an hour of sleep tonight....been preparing chestnut shipping labels for the past 18 hours or so....and thought I'd rest my mind some reading about bananas.
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