Tropicman
06-13-2010, 04:40 PM
I have fruited couple of these in the past few years.
I planted one in April,that had a 8ft trunk,and was in it's 3rd year being over wintered,and was hoping to get fruit this year.
It was nice and firm when I planted it in April along with all my other bananas.
We have had a lot of rain and cool weather to start this spring,but hasn't seemed to bother Raja Puri,Basjoo,Vel.Pink or Siam rubys.They are doing fine.
Then about middle of May,it still hasn't put out any leaves,and I noticed the top
starting to get soft,so I cut back to firm part,week later soft again,cut back again this time about half way down,still left 4 ft trunk,another week it was soft all the way down,well to pups appeared,and there now growing at warp speed,already 6ft to top of leaves,in less than a month.
Has anyone experienced a 8ft trunk going soft,after wintering a couple years?http://lh4.ggpht.com/_of77_9IEPRg/TBUJkjpwupI/AAAAAAAAD94/L58rsNG2mw4/s800/MVC-015S.JPG
I planted one in April,that had a 8ft trunk,and was in it's 3rd year being over wintered,and was hoping to get fruit this year.
It was nice and firm when I planted it in April along with all my other bananas.
We have had a lot of rain and cool weather to start this spring,but hasn't seemed to bother Raja Puri,Basjoo,Vel.Pink or Siam rubys.They are doing fine.
Then about middle of May,it still hasn't put out any leaves,and I noticed the top
starting to get soft,so I cut back to firm part,week later soft again,cut back again this time about half way down,still left 4 ft trunk,another week it was soft all the way down,well to pups appeared,and there now growing at warp speed,already 6ft to top of leaves,in less than a month.
Has anyone experienced a 8ft trunk going soft,after wintering a couple years?http://lh4.ggpht.com/_of77_9IEPRg/TBUJkjpwupI/AAAAAAAAD94/L58rsNG2mw4/s800/MVC-015S.JPG