endeitz

JoeReal -- You make good points as usual. As to mis-identification, I will have to post a picture next fall so you guys can verify that it is a D. Brazilian. =)

Speaking of 1" pups, I had a nice Basjoo in the ground at my old place that had several pups (they came up about 8" from the main stem, would this make them water suckers?) that were about 1-2" tall. This was about May, and we had just sold our home and the buyers did not want me to take the mother plant when we moved (almost a dealbreaker for me, but my wife overruled my zeal). So I dug up these tiny suckers, potted them up, and put them in a shady place at the new house.

After a few weeks, two appeared to die (shriveled back to the surface), and one put out a couple of new leaves (that one is now 3' tall). Strangely enough, after two more weeks, the two that I thought had died pushed up some greenery from the apparently dead tissue, and are now about 1' tall each. So I guess the lesson I got was, never give up hope. Then again, maybe Basjoo are much easier to grow than others (I don't have much experience with bananas yet.)

Cheers,

Ed.