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[Claude Sweet <sweetent@home.com>]

Joel,

I have several large clumps of edible bananas growing in my back yard.
In a rich soil supplied with copious amounts of water, the bananas
produce so many roots that driving a spade into the ground is
impossible, I have to drive a sharpen flat bladed shovel into the ground
and remove thin slices as opposed to trenching around a large corm.

In general I recommend composting all banana leaves to use a mulch
around the base of the banana clumps. In addition I would feed a
15/15/15 commercial fertilizer as they are very heavy feeders.

Bananas are primarily grown commercially for fruit in the tropics where
they have very shallow soils and lots of rainfall. I am not aware of any
such natural or manufactured biostimulants.

CLaude Sweet
San Diego, CA

Hortus wrote:
> 
> ====================================
> 
> BANANA
> -----------
> 
> Does anyone have information on the enhancement of root mass
> banana (musacaea, musa) using
> auxins or biostimulants (proported snake oil users need not
> apply).
> I am especially interested in methods which have already
> been accepted by commercial growers.
> 
> regards
> Joel
> 
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