Very helpful. I have a small grove of infected banana trees in the backyard and you've helped me identify couple of observations. We've had excessive rainfall last month with some amount of standing water, despite the well drained soil, impeded by no sunlight. More importantly, I usually water the ever thirsty bananas with Neem and soap nut water but stopped that practice during the rains.
Thank you Prashanti for your question. Here's Wayne O'Neill's response: "The infected pseudostems are cut into pieces and placed into heavy duty 250L bags with 1kg of the urea per bag. The bags are then tightly sealed to hold in the ammonia. The growing point of each stem in the infected stool is also gouged with a tool to create a hollow and 200g of urea is placed into each hollow (this help to kill the infected plant). For the soil fumigation effect the urea is spread at a rate of 1kg/m2 evenly on the soil surface (it isn’t incorporated to ensure that there’s no soil disturbance) and then covered with heavy plastic. This plastic sheeting covers everything in the affected area - the soil surface, the bagged pseudostem material and the base of the stool which is still in the ground."
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Great talk! Plenty of history and relevant information. It is a MUST for anyone interested on Fusarium wilt of banana
Very helpful. I have a small grove of infected banana trees in the backyard and you've helped me identify couple of observations. We've had excessive rainfall last month with some amount of standing water, despite the well drained soil, impeded by no sunlight. More importantly, I usually water the ever thirsty bananas with Neem and soap nut water but stopped that practice during the rains.
Very comprehensive talk! How was urea applied to each pseudo stem in a uniform manner?
Thank you Prashanti for your question. Here's Wayne O'Neill's response: "The infected pseudostems are cut into pieces and placed into heavy duty 250L bags with 1kg of the urea per bag. The bags are then tightly sealed to hold in the ammonia. The growing point of each stem in the infected stool is also gouged with a tool to create a hollow and 200g of urea is placed into each hollow (this help to kill the infected plant). For the soil fumigation effect the urea is spread at a rate of 1kg/m2 evenly on the soil surface (it isn’t incorporated to ensure that there’s no soil disturbance) and then covered with heavy plastic. This plastic sheeting covers everything in the affected area - the soil surface, the bagged pseudostem material and the base of the stool which is still in the ground."