What banana fertilizer do you use?
I've been using one that I buy online, from Wellspring Gardens, which is an eBay store. It's a water soluble 15-5-30, with minors. It seems to work fine, but you have to dissolve it in water, and hand water the bananas - very time consuming.
Stoke's Tropicals sells a granular, time release (3 months) 6-2-12, with minors. Seems a lot easier. Anybody use it?
Which fertilizer do you use, and would you recommend it to others?
Steve
Which Banana Fertilizer?
We pour on 10-5-40 and love it. It's what everyone uses for bananas here!!! From farms to small family groves...
Also when you clean out a fireplace or burning pit...the 'nanas love the ashes.
Aloha,
Where do you get 10-5-40?
Ours is made by Gaviota (Gaivota?)...sold by BEI. We buy it in 50lb bags.
Steve all we ever used was 13-13-13, 2 or 3 times a year and every time DH mowed he put all the grass clippings around the base of them. It gives them nutrients and moisture. They really thrived, got huge, and made fruit. Ask anyone who has ever been to my old home
Aloha,
Thanks, I'll look for it.
Donna,
I know that bananas need a lot of potassium - they'll stop producing fruit if they don't get it. The one I've been using has it (15-5-30), but I have to measure water, measure fertilizer, then hand feed the bananas. I was looking for something easier, like a time-release granular. I appreciate your input, but I think I'm going to stay with a fertilizer that's specifically made for bananas.
Steve
Hi Steve,
I went crazy looking for a 6-2-12 around here a couple of years ago. I ended up buying the one from Stokes and absolutely love it! I would definitely recommend it.
Lisa
Lisa...good point! And, when you cut the trunks and leaves of the bananas...be sure to leave them there, ON the clump, to decompose and give back all the potassium and everything it used in life. Great fertilizer too.
Carol
Stokes is out of stock. I tried to track down Gaviota; it would appear that BEI doesn't distribute on the mainland, at least not that I can see.
I guess I'll have to stay with the water soluble, until I can find a granular.
Steve
Steve,
Dolans in St. Pete has a granular high potassium fert in bags.
JG
JG-
Thanks. I can't find Dolans on the web. I don't have a St. Pete phone book.
Are they a nursery? Would you have an address, or phone number?
Steve
Steve,
Here ya go...
Dolan's
801 62nd ave north
727.525.3434
Thanks, JG