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Old 07-09-2017, 07:47 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Default Re: Blue Java sword or water sucker?

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Originally Posted by BobShh View Post
I saw on youtube that water suckers aren't as good as sword suckers. The mother plant had a particularly bad history. Several years without flowering and whenever it does flower it falls over too early. I thought maybe we were mismanaging the suckers by never pruning and letting all the water suckers grow.
I have not noticed any differences as the plants mature.
Blue Java is a "leaner" in general and needs support at point of fruiting no matter if it was a water sucker or sword sucker as a juvenile plant.
If you refer to the bad history of the mother plant, I would rather look into the conditions this plant has grown: light, soil, fertilizer, water, climate etc. If these conditions are not ideal, your plant will not do well.
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