Showing posts with label bananas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bananas. Show all posts

Thursday, December 4, 2008

In Cagayan de Oro City


If I can have my way I would demolish this old goathouse and replace it with something akin to th one on the right. This is one of the sights in Cagayan de Oro City that serves to remind me that I should build something bigger and better.





Saturday, September 20, 2008

Lakatan Bananas in Cagayan de Oro City


A month ago, I started planting Lakatan bananas from suckers I bought from Brod Dodo who has a lakatan farm in Kinoguitan. Planting lakatan bananas is not so easy involving not just land preparation which I did in the most haphazard way but also deciding how many plants you would want in your farm.

I decided it would be best to have a good enough density like 2,100 plants per hectare and computing from that I came up with a scheme of planting each sucker 215 cm. from each other. I think this is a pretty good number. The traditional way is to plant each sucker three meters apart which would result in a density of less than 1000 plants per hectare.

Visit also: Cagayan de Oro City