Feeding Our Staghorn Ferns With Banana Water - Summer 2023
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Here's something that's new to me: making banana water to feed Staghorn Ferns . If you read up on Staghorn Ferns, you'll soon discover that they like banana peels. In big, mounted Staghorn Ferns, some folks just toss the peel up *in* the fern. I didn't do that. But, I did soak a banana peel in a glass of water for a little bit over a day and created a potassium, manganese and phosphorus-laden glass of water that I split between the two mounted ferns. Below is a photo of the water after 24 hours with the banana peel soaking in it. #19 on my 2023 to-do list is: "Staghorns take work" . Feeding them banana water is part of that solve.