What is the best fertilizer for bananas?
Best fertilizer for bananas
IFAS has a good description that might help, http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/MG040.
My solution - I buy a bag of fertilizer from Going Bananas each year at the USF Plant Festival.
bsewall, the link dosen't work. I have the Going Bananas catalog I'll have to look through.
I was wondering that myself
We don't fertilize ours and they grow like crazy. Started out with 29 three years ago and now have 93. High count last year was over 100. We lost several to having bananas. No need to fertilize here. They do like lots of water tho, and full sun.
bananas are considered heavy feeders and like ferts high in potassium ( last number) . The old leaves are heavy in potassium and when they fall and rot into the ground, the bananas feed off them, but I would fert if you want quicker growth-esp in your zone.
Thanks, tigerlily, I heard rose food was good for them.
Calcium nitrate makes them grow like crazy.
I'll have to check that out!
Where do you get it at?
We actually get ours from a laboratory supply company........but, you can try this website: http://vertigro.com/products/fertilizers.php
Also, some of the better retail nurseries may carry it in 5 pound bags. It's amazing on bananas and heliconias and bird of paradise. It's like instant leaf potion.....but I would jsut apply it a few times a year- you don't want to take away from your fruit production with too much leafing out.
Thanks, I'll check out the link and look for it.
Thanks for that info fauna4flora, I've been at a loss about bananas and BOP's for some time now.....this is very helpful!
Rj
At a loss! Well, shucks. I bet I can help with that. Lots of water, plenty of light, and high pH soils. Bananas should be direct planted with lots of room to send out rhizomes to produce fruit. Dmail me and we can get more detailed, or post- whichever you prefer. F4F
okay..sent a dmail
Will pick your brain this weekend, RJ.
okay...and I have my handy l travel source of info with me...DG... :)
Oh my gosh. The bird bath is full of cedar wax wings. Absolutely gorgeous. Migrating to somewhere. Another new bird I haven't seen before. Going through the bird book now.
LOL..I did the same thing when they descended on the garden...they loved the cherry laurel trees.
Yes. the neighbor over the alley has about 5-6 cherry laurels. My deck will be a mess in the morning. Oh well, love them anyway. So beautiful.
oh I know..purple bombs all over the place...and some of the berrys are fermented...drunk wax wings...hmmm..not pretty
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hahhahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahahahha!!! that was unintentional!
Sorry about the mix up about the bogus link to the IFAS article at the top of this thread. Somehow a "." crept into the url and it wouldn't work. If you are still interested, here is the correct url: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/MG040
Thanks, bsewell, it works now!
Interesting article! I marked it as a favorite!