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Originally Posted by Jeff zone 8 N.C.
AeAe has a reputation as difficult to grow but where you live it will be much easier because it's very warm and the banana will not suffer setbacks from chills. Some people do find them easy to grow but mostly in warm climates. You still need to make sure your planting spot is well drained and amended with compost or bagged premium soil. Bagged composted manure would help. The AeAe can sunburn on the white areas so dappled shade or protection from afternoon sun can help. If you are dead set on an AeAe beware of those selling supposed "Aeae" but the plant is really a "Florida". The two plants are very hard to tell apart as they are almost identical and even the best growers have trouble figuring out which is which. In another post I mentioned this. The "Florida" plant is still a very nice banana but people here like to know exactly what they actually are buying and this identification situation just muddies the already muddied banana I.D. world, especially when someone believes they know what they have and then pass it on as that plant.
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Thanks so much for the insight! I figured that it would probably be a bit easier that other places to grow down here because of the heat. I do have tall pines on out property that dapple the sun for part of the day. Might be a good spot for it. We have a normal coffee plant on the other side of our house and that is getting sunburned so I don’t think it will fare well in that spot.
The person I was going to buy from was very transparent and willing to show me the mother plant and such but who knows in this crazy world and with them being so similar. I believe I read that the Florida has seeds, is that correct? I feel like that would be harder to eat/cook with so I still might go with the aeae.
That being said, long term I think it would do better in the ground with its requirements vs a pot right? Or is it better to pot it as it’s sensitive?
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Originally Posted by Jeff zone 8 N.C.
By the way "Best Day" is a trusted seller of
properly identified bananas and now has the AeAe for less than you are considering paying and they are potted and larger size.
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I greatly appreciate your recommendation! I have reached out to him about it but since I’m new to this forum I wasn’t exactly sure who's trustworthy here yet (though he seems to have a long track record of being very reliable in his past posts now that I look at them).
I will reach out to him and see if we can set something up. I’ve never had a plant shipped before so I’m not exactly sure how all that works. Thanks again!
