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Old 06-16-2009, 08:04 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Default Re: Ensete Maurelii leaves turning yellow

jack is right iv see those plants at HD they are woefully under potted secondly Maurellii need full sun not indirect secondly do not mist it thees Bananas are for the high plains of Ethiopia it is dry as a bone there Maurellii can go with out water for months at a time although it will go in to dormancy and if you get water in to the crown of the plant on a regular basis it will rot fast with in a few weeks its normal for the older leafs to turn yellow and die as they get old new leafs will be coming out of the center all the time if its not pushing a new leaf every couple of days then its not getting enough light

so here is your game plane re-pot feed and move to out doors for the summer they don't make good house plants and ones it gets doing in the Sun water the hell out of it if the temps are over 80 deg F my maurellii drinks 5 gal of water a day but its a rather large plant
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