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Originally Posted by coast crab
Thanks, varig8 and everyone else for sharing so much helpful information and experiences!!!
To illustrate what I wrote about sun vs humidity, take a look at these pics.
Here's my plant in September; still hot, humid summer here (notice the amount of light it's in under my oak)...
And here's yesterday (11-15) morning, after a very dry October with almost no rain and very low humidity...
Russell |
Russell:
The same type of leaf damage due to water stress can happen even with the less 'exotic' varieties. I had a lot of leaf edge chlorosis this past summer here in Hilo on both my Dwarf Brazilian and Dwarf Cavendish varieties. The chlorosis is something I'd never seen before as it just browned the edges of the leaves and did not spread to the midrib. I thought, at first, that it was sunburn from the two huge solar flares that took place at that time but one of my fellow growers suggested that since my plants are spaced so close together, that it might be water stress and that I should try increasing my irrigation amount by about double. Well..I followed the suggestion and the problem did not appear on the new leaves.
Kele in Hawai'i