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Old 03-10-2008, 07:43 PM   #272 (permalink)
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Default Re: What did you plant today (bananas)?

Today I planted possibly two different varieties of unknown bananas. I bought them today from my friends at Rockledge Gardens. It was an over grown 25 gal. pot at a great deal for $30. There were two adult plants and three babies. When I got it home and split it, turns out that there was two seperate main rhizomes in the pot. So this might possibly be two different varieties. Each of the main rhizomes were 8-9 ft tall and had 1-2 small pups and one had a large one (3ft. corm). Guess we'll see what it is when the two larger ones fruit, hopefully they'll start flowering this fall!!! Knowing what the nursery regularely have for a selection, knowing they replanted two plants in the 25 gal pot, I think it might be an Ice Cream or a Williams. Would be awsome if it was one rhizome each in the pot!!!!! I'll take pictures of the planted bananas another day. My back yard is a mess due to some messy contractors that pressure washed old paint off of our patio walls and messed up some of my plants!!!!!!

I had also dug up a Dwarf Puerto Rican Banana that had died and replaced it with one of the new ones above, and to my suprise there were three babies at the bottom of the dead corm waiting to come up out of the gound. I repotted those into a pot until they could mature some more before seperating.

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