Bananas
- Need LOTS of fertilizer. Fertilize with 6-2-12, citrus fertilizer, compost, or 8-10-10, plus micro-nutrients.
- You CAN cut off browning leaves to keep them looking pretty.
- Flooding will kill a banana.
- Too much water splits fruits.
- After harvesting fruit, cut plant to the ground, chop up, and allow to decay under remaining banana.
- Cigar rot is believed to be caused by lack of potassium.
- Sensitive to cold but will grow back.
- Can prune them into a hedge to control size, topping them.
- 'Glenn' is one of the best for flavor.
- Use citrus fertilizer.
- Sunburn causes a yellow spot on fruit then rots inside.
- Too much water splits fruits.
- Algae, scab, anthracnose: use copper.
- Powdery mildew: use sulfur.
- If in frost area it was recommended to plant a tree and just expect to loose it every 4-5 years then replant.
- If leaf looks like it is sunburn, turn over leaf to see lace bugs. Not a threat to the plant. Growers ignore this.
- Scab does not affect flesh. Use copper.
- Anthracnose: Use copper, this DOES affect flesh.
- 24 hours of flooding will kill plant.
- When first fruit drops from the plant, all fruit can be harvested.
- Certain avocados are not as sensitive to cold.
- "Top"/prune plant yearly to keep to a manageable height.
- Fruit is ripe when there is no green left on the fruit.
- Very few problems.
- Sensitive to cold at 25 degrees, however will grow back.
