coast crab
05-27-2010, 09:24 AM
Early last spring I bought a pretty mystery banana at Home Depot and planted it in my garden. With the help of the kind folks here it was identified as 'Tall red' - which turns out to be a REALLY good name for it. That 3 gallon plant exploded into the biggest and most beautiful banana in my entire collection. By the end of the summer that original pstem was 14 inches across at the base and was surrounded by pups taller then me. It was so vigorous that the roots were crawling around in the mulch on top of the ground...
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=23791&ppuser=5745><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=23791&size=1 border=0></a>
Somewhere I read, or someone here told me, that this variety was "cold sensitive". Well folks, let me tell you that's an understatement. Nights in the 40's burned the leaves and turned them yellow and it wasn't long before the whole thing collapsed. All I have to show for it now are 2 new pups, the biggest is barely knee high. My 'Thai black' pups are already as tall as me.
I'm going to see how it goes this summer, but this one may sadly be off the list.
Russell
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=23791&ppuser=5745><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=23791&size=1 border=0></a>
Somewhere I read, or someone here told me, that this variety was "cold sensitive". Well folks, let me tell you that's an understatement. Nights in the 40's burned the leaves and turned them yellow and it wasn't long before the whole thing collapsed. All I have to show for it now are 2 new pups, the biggest is barely knee high. My 'Thai black' pups are already as tall as me.
I'm going to see how it goes this summer, but this one may sadly be off the list.
Russell