Bananas and humidity
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Humidity in greenhouse
Comments (2)Many, many old threads on humidity...try a search for VPD or relative humidity or both. You need to assess humidity in terms of VPD, not necessarily the relative humidity. There is a calculator and target VPD levels discussed in the Ping: stressbaby thread near the top right now, or in several of the threads you will find in a search. SB...See MoreIndoor Dwarf Orinoco
Comments (1)Yes that is normal. Those are the bottom leaves. As the banana plant gets more leaves, the lower ones will start to turn yellowish then brown. Once a leaf is totally brown with no traces of green left on it, cut off the dead leaf. If all the leaves were doing that, I'd be a little concerned. No, you do not need a space heater for the banana. (Bananas are essentially large herbs and are not classified as trees) The banana will eventually fruit, but the problem is that it will rapidly outgrow that pot before fruiting. I had a dwarf orinoco fruit for me, but it was in the ground and was a good 6-7 feet tall when it did. Maybe someone else here has had dwarf orinoco fruit in a pot and could tell you how large it was when it did. Misting is ok and would not hurt, but bananas like humid weather in the summer. Due to the dry office conditions in the winter, misting wouldn't help out that much, but as I said, it wouldn't hurt at all. Mist away....See MoreHow will extreme heat and high humidity effect my peppers?
Comments (21)I garden in Southwest Florida also, in planting beds and in seven-gallon nursery containers. I've been having trouble growing peppers in the heat in my climate. Part of the trouble is root knot nematodes, which thrive in our subtropical climate. They are especially bad in the summer months in the heat and frequent downpours. Currently I'm fallowing my soil in trash containers for months at a time to reduce their numbers, and rotating with resistant varieties like Wando pea and California Blackeyed Pea number 5. The only pepper I've grown that does well through the summer is Thai Hot. They slow down in the cooler weather and pick up in the heat. I'm testing Marconi this year in my containers, they are reported to be heat tolerant, but I've learned to be skeptical about claims made in seed catalogs. Chilly Chili Hybrid from Tomatogrowers.com is supposed to be "extremely heat tolerant", so they might work. That company is in Southwest Florida, so it might be good info. I tried Carolina Wonder peppers for their reported nematode resistance, and they got devastated by root knot nematodes in my containers. There were hardly any roots at all when I pulled them, just knobby galls. There is no substitute for trial and error under your specific growing conditions. What works in Iowa might not work in The South, as we have both found out. I tried Gypsy, another "heat resistant" pepper. They are all dying and it's only May....See MoreEnsete Ventricosum and Low Humidity
Comments (1)Moved to the bananas forum. This post was edited by Maquiaveli on Mon, Nov 25, 13 at 23:54...See Moresouthlatropical
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