Where do you get these picuters and smilies?
That's some pretty hardcore stuff.
Well, some serious fighting going on, right?
As I don't want to be pain in the arse or anything like that and I know that when husband and wife are arguing, I shouldn't interfere, but I want to say something.
When I started with naners, I had 2 SDCs (so the potential height was somewhere between 1,4 and 1,8, unlike possible 5m with basjoo), I only had one large pot and many smaller. So I put one SDC into a large pot, and one SDC into a small pot.
It was a question of maybe 4 or 5 weeks until I saw the difference. The one planted in small pot wasn't growing that vigorously, as the one in the big pot and soon the time came, when the pot became his limit. It started producing less leaves on the mother plant and sent out about
10 pups.
Pups grew to about 4th leaf and then stopped as well.
I had to repot the plant and only then I saw that vigorous growth again. But now it was slowed down by all these pups. On the other hand, the larger pot was feeding 1 mother plant and 3 pups, that were quickly about 3/4 of mother plant. Here I am, almost 1,5 years from then and the pup in small pot hasn't reached the height, vigor or leaf-size of the one placed in large pot. By large I mean 15 gallons.
Also the roots for the small plant weren't curved and it had nice, natural structure, as if it were growing in the wild.
Now I don't want to make any boo hoo, but imagine, what curved roots would do to a large, tall plant. It would undermine it's stability, vigor...
Maybe that's what Bob was referring to.
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Originally Posted by The Hollyberry Lady
Oh yeah, Jack...
The boys looked to be around nine/ten.
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Oh yeah, that's a good age for many particular reasons.
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Originally Posted by Bob
Hollyberry, this is killing me but I've given so much thought to Basjoo's and bananas in general during the past 11 months, I think growing your plants the first couple of years in pots is the way to go for everyone growing basjoo north of zone 7.
You're doing the right thing.....................your pots are way too small. |
Yep, til the corm is large enough to be able to survive winters, it is better off in a large pot.
HBL, even our botnaists in the Botanical Garden protected it during the first few winters and then only mulch. It's just safer that way. I don't know about that surviving of such a small plant. And trust me, when I say, that we have Canadian winters only in our mountains.
And I wouldn't definitely advice you to put it to ground now. It's too late in the season.