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Default Ensete Glaucum experiment.

Without a doubt after this year that the snow banana or ensete glaucum is my favorite banana, it's graceful yet muscular form is a winner. I purchased two tiny seedlings and grew them out slowly for a year before planting them this spring as two foot plants. They both topped out over ten feet high, with pseudostems of five feet.


Their seeds are known as being fairly easy to germinate as far as bananas go, I tried some a few years back to no avail, so I am trying to reproduce them by division.

Here it is before division.




Just after the not so even division. They were treated with bio fungicide at this time.



And potted out and ready for winter and some vigorous new growth, I hope.



I'll update when and if signs of growth are visable.

Regards Harold
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