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Originally Posted by Raules
Beautifully blossoms!  And five years before the first flowering, not long? |
Usually most bananas we have grown flower within 2-3 years of planting. The
Musa basjoo grows but doesn't seem to thrive in our long hot season. This plant also has only grown a couple of pups and is about 7ft tall. Maybe they don't like our soil which is very well drained and sandy. We have had a couple other plants of
M. basjoo grow for a couple of years then die but this could have been to nematodes as they are very common in the sandy soil.