Look at the Coloring on this Ae Ae !!!! - Page 2

damaclese · 09-27-2009, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by harveyc

Come on, Brian, I expect to see a Siam Ruby flower from you! Go Brian, Go!

By the way, Tog swore that variegation was all due to nutrition and that variegation would go away with good nutrition. I just don't see that, but he had some experiences along the lines of that. Weird.

Harvyc iv noted with my Ae Ae the more nitrogen rich firt i give it the less over all white it has on its leaves I'm not saying your are wrong its just curies

momoese · 09-27-2009, 09:46 AM

Jordon (jnstropic) has mentioned several times how he controls the amount of green using more or less potassium nitrate.

damaclese · 09-27-2009, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by momoese

Jordon (jnstropic) has mentioned several times how he controls the amount of green using more or less potassium nitrate.

yes i read that too and thats how i desieded when my Ae was geting over 50%white to start adding to the firt program and it worked like a charm

harveyc · 09-28-2009, 06:40 AM

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.

damaclese · 09-28-2009, 06:52 AM

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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

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