 |
|
|||
|
||||
Home
Search
Forum 
Register
Login
Recent
Posts| Viewing User Profile for: davesgonechina | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| About | Contact | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
| Post Statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|
davesgonechina has contributed to 2 posts out of 2610 total posts
(0.08%) in 880 days (0.00 posts per day).
20 Most recent posts:
Banana Growing tips- How to grow banana. »
Help! Stuck with Dying Banana Tree! Jul 18, 2006 05:11 AM
(Total replies: 7)
Aloha Kahoa, I didn't see either post until now, so the leaves are still there. Another pair, however, are going on me. One I'm going to cut because it's mostly browned, and the other one appears to have been snapped by wind (I have two choices, either it goes outside in the sun and wind or inside in the dark). So far I have no new leaves but two fast growing new sprouts in the pot, which leads me to the following dillemma: do I repot, since it seems to be outgrowing the pot way, way fast (roots appear to be pushing up out of the soil) and risk another shock? Or does the pot look like its reasonably large enough? Thanks for the info, though. Happy to know I got a decently uprooted plant and that what's happening is due to transplant and not some disease or something. Cheers
Banana Growing tips- How to grow banana. »
Help! Stuck with Dying Banana Tree! Jul 6, 2006 06:05 AM
(Total replies: 7)
I live in China. I asked a plant shop for a banana tree. Come back tomorrow, they said. My girlfriend picked up what appeared to be a recently unearthed banana tree. A small bundle of roots for a plant with a meter long trunk and 7 fans - I'm no expert, but I think they dug up an adult banana tree in the middle of the night. My first thought was "huh, that's probably no good". The roots at the bottom formed a ball about 25cm in diameter. The shop wasn't good enough to include a pot, though we had one about 34cm in diameter and 30cm deep. We used loose soil from a nearby park. The pot has holes and the soil drains awful fast when you water it. It's been one week, and two leaves collapsed so we cut them off. Four of the remaining five are withering yellow and dying off at the tips. It's on a balcony with a southern exposure and good light day round. I've been watering it twice a day, about a liter of water each, but now I'm watering alot more because the browning of the leaves makes me think it needs more water. I've read that you cannot overwater a banana plant, and that you can drown it. I don't know which is right. I can't identify the species, so I've taken some (large, 600kb each) pictures for y'all to see: http://silkworms.chinesetriad.org/banana/banana1.jpg http://silkworms.chinesetriad.org/banana/banana2.jpg http://silkworms.chinesetriad.org/banana/banana3.jpg http://silkworms.chinesetriad.org/banana/banana4.jpg I think the tree may need repotting to a bigger pot with more soil, but don't know if this is immediately necessary or eventually necessary. There's blackening where the trunk meets the branches, and again I don't know if this is normal or not. Any help would be appreciated. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||