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Originally Posted by barnetmill
Darkman on Sunday I took a closer look at my one banana plant that was originally tagged as an icecream banana. I cleared a little of the brush away to look at it and it is certainly not growing a lot since I abandoned it 5-6 yrs ago after thinking it was not going to make me any bananas. It does have closed stems and from what you told me that does indicate a cold hardy banana. I just got my Husky 335 weed eater equipped with a saw blade back today and if the repair is good I will clear that area and apply a lot of nitrogen rich compost and if it grows any I will protect against the cold weather this winter. It is currently about 40 inches tall and it grew taller when i first got it when I was fertilizing it. I planted it near my creek in a raised bed filled with good soil and compost. I will add new compost as you suggested to the banana plant and also to the near by seedling grown paw paw trees that I have that are also not growing a lot to which I have just left there on their own with occassional weeding. Some plants like blueberries with minimal care under my conditions will grow very well and others will not. Bananas and Paw Paws evidently will not.
I also plan to clear and prepare areas for more banana plants.
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Make sure you try to get as many nutrient robbing roots out of the banana bed. Pull all weeds especially grasses. Make sure it's in a sunny location, feed it and it should take off especially with therain we've been getting. If we hit a dry spell you'll have to water for optimum growth.
Make sure your small Paw Paws are shaded. They will not do good in the bright sunlight until they get larger.
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Originally Posted by Jose263
The 'nana meet' was super - I visited a paw paw grower near LSU last year - he had several large trees and said they like lots of fertilizer and compost. I have one paw paw tree about 4 ft - it bloomed for the 1st time this April. (but two trees are needed)
Have you had paw paw fruit?
I am looking for a second pawpaw plant or graftwood or both -
I'll pm you and Darkman maybe we can exchange scions or plants this winter..
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Who was the grower you visited? What varieties did he have?
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Originally Posted by john_ny
Don't see any pictures.
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We only got a few but Bo has them and will see they get posted.