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Originally Posted by harveyc
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.  |
good luck on this years crop hope its a big one for you
yes i hear you on the variegation nutrition subject its really hard to say i personally think they do better in Alkaline soils you don't get the rot and other noxious fungi but there still touchy at times and in a pot takes careful management I'm finding that out after a totally trouble free season now my plants decided to Bloom and its gotten all stressed out i think i over watered it I'm not going to worry about it iv got other things to think about with winter coming on