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WildernessGreen · 08-03-2024, 05:29 PM

Help! I'm being taken over by a musa madness mass of banana seedlings!

A few weeks back, I planted around 100 of PR-Giants variegated musa seeds.....they started popping up on day 20, now at 5 weeks, I have over 40 of the little buggers!!! A few showing some real nice signs of variegation - woo hoo!

They are in pro-mix, I soaked 'em for a day before planting them around 1/4" deep, have kept them just slightly moist. In an area of my greenhouse that gets no direct sunlight, just some bright filtered light. Temperatures (Fahrenheit) averaging low 60's at night, mid 80's by day. Sometimes gets up to low 90's during the day. I have started feeding them with a custom mix of my fancy shmantcy compost tea and some Neptunes Harvest seaweed/fish goop.

My only regret is I put them all together in a flat, as I had heard so much about them taking up to a YEAR to sprout if at all, I figured, maybe I would get a few........now I wish I had used individual small pots, so I wouldn't have to worry about transplanting at a young age - but with this many, I can lose a few, no problemo!

It's going to be interesting during the next year or so watching the variegation develop on the ones I decide to keep and grow out. I will probably keep all the heavily variegated ones, and a few of the green ones, just to see what kinds of pups they will eventually produce!

Now the only mystery is, what actual species of musa are these guys? Are they simply unknown wild found variegated musa from Puerto Rico? Hard to put all that on a plant label.......

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08-03-2024, 05:29 PM	#1 (permalink)
WildernessGreen Location: Northern New Mexico, USA Find me on the map! Join Date: Jun 2019 Posts: 81 BananaBucks : 14,588 Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Thanks" 63 Times Was Thanked 114 Times in 45 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 0 Times	Attack of the wild Puerto Rico Banana seedlings! Help! I'm being taken over by a musa madness mass of banana seedlings! A few weeks back, I planted around 100 of PR-Giants variegated musa seeds.....they started popping up on day 20, now at 5 weeks, I have over 40 of the little buggers!!! A few showing some real nice signs of variegation - woo hoo! They are in pro-mix, I soaked 'em for a day before planting them around 1/4" deep, have kept them just slightly moist. In an area of my greenhouse that gets no direct sunlight, just some bright filtered light. Temperatures (Fahrenheit) averaging low 60's at night, mid 80's by day. Sometimes gets up to low 90's during the day. I have started feeding them with a custom mix of my fancy shmantcy compost tea and some Neptunes Harvest seaweed/fish goop. My only regret is I put them all together in a flat, as I had heard so much about them taking up to a YEAR to sprout if at all, I figured, maybe I would get a few........now I wish I had used individual small pots, so I wouldn't have to worry about transplanting at a young age - but with this many, I can lose a few, no problemo! It's going to be interesting during the next year or so watching the variegation develop on the ones I decide to keep and grow out. I will probably keep all the heavily variegated ones, and a few of the green ones, just to see what kinds of pups they will eventually produce! Now the only mystery is, what actual species of musa are these guys? Are they simply unknown wild found variegated musa from Puerto Rico? Hard to put all that on a plant label....... [IMG][/IMG]