Tetrapanax Rex growers

Hello everyone, need your advice.

I have recently purchased a Tetrapanax Rex and was wondering if anyone could offer any advice in respect of getting the best out of it. e.g should i feed? how often? and with what?

When I bought it, I was told to treat it like a banana plant! is this right?

Thanks in advance.

 

Plenty of water and liquid chicken pellets suits my TPRex and Bananas

 

Feed and water it like mad, do remember it will sucker all over the place, often quite a distance from the parent plant.

You can put a barrier arround it if you want to contain it, but the pups can be removed easily and will make nice swap plants!!!

 

I love this plant its really nice.I have one but i would love another one.How long before these plants start to sucker does anyone know?Here is a pic of my baby from last year.Its just starting to wake up.Sp if anybody gets any suckers thay would like to sell me please...Thanks

 

I haven't planted it out yet so I think i will use some barrier to prevent spreading into my neighbours garden. I've never tried chick pellett, so will get some of that too.

Thanks all

 

I would love one so did some research. The word is they grow like the clappers and sucker young. So I'd hang on for your own (probably next year) D&D and then you can sell me one.

 

Ours has suckered after two years, it was a very small plant when it went in.

 

Hi Gaz nice to see you hear too. Hows sunny Luton?

 

No probs mate you can have one.I hope it will sucker this year that would be brill.......daz