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Originally Posted by venturabananas
No, seriously, she isn't doing anything other than watering them. We have very heavy clay soil that doesn't get leached of nutrients or dry out easily. Eventually, this mat will have to run out of nutrients, but not yet.
The compost pile in the center of the mat would be good for the non-winter months here, but like Mitchel says, it would be probably be disaster during our cool, wet winters, when banana roots and corms tend to rot.
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I can accept that cold and wet could rot the corm, but I'm more curious about the feeder roots.
The best medium for growing long healthy feeder roots in Puerto Rico is having enough black or brown slime "semi-composted material".
That is the main reason my plants have 20'-30' roots. I can say for certain that roots here grow much faster in slime than in soil.
They will not even rot after a year of being in standing water.
Have you ever actually seen feeder roots rotting?