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Mar46396
10-10-2010, 02:14 PM
Hello Everyone!!

I thought I'd share some pictures from my collection. They are almost all new this year and growing them this year has been quite a challenge due to the extreme heat and lack of humidity this summer, not to mention the lack of appreciable rainfall from June till the end of September. I freaked out when the temps dipped into the lower 40s a week ago and brought them all in, but now it's back in the 70s day 50s night, but I'm leaving them inside. The 4 dwarf cavendish were in the ground and the rest were potted for this year. Next spring they all go in the ground.


I picked these up from a local nursery this year
Dwarf Cavendish with 2 pups
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37388&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37388)

Dwarf Cavendish with 1 large pup
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37390&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37390)

2 More Dwarf Cavendish
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37391&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37391)

E. Maurelii indoor plant. This one has been growing like crazy
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37395&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37395)

These next couple of pictures were from plants bought over the internet and include a musa sikkimensis and a daj giant from Sandy @ Northern Tropics, a thai black, a kandarian, another e. maurelii, and two musa basjoo
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37393&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37393)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37394&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37394)

This basjoo overwintered in my house last year when I didn't know much about bananas. I never watered it, and it died all the way back. I was going to throw it away, but when I looked at the corm it had a small growth coming from it, so I repotted it outside and it started to grow.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37396&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37396)

hammer
10-10-2010, 02:31 PM
Very nice banana plants. I had real good luck with my banana going in the ground in the spring in the fall i dig them up.:woohoonaner:

The Hollyberry Lady
10-10-2010, 03:03 PM
Nice shots Marc...thanks for sharing!


: )

Blake09
10-10-2010, 04:36 PM
Awsome plants, and love the pots (pictures 1-4) ;)

chasbear
10-10-2010, 05:06 PM
Wow, those are really looking great! If you keep up your enthusiasm though, at this rate are you going to need a bigger house?

hydroid
10-10-2010, 07:31 PM
WOW!!! those are very nice plants.

Mar46396
10-11-2010, 08:11 PM
Thanks everyone for the compliments.

Awsome plants, and love the pots (pictures 1-4)

Got the pots at Kmart on clearance for $2.99 each.

Wow, those are really looking great! If you keep up your enthusiasm though, at this rate are you going to need a bigger house?

I haven't even brought all the palms in yet!!!!!

Marcus

Gabe15
10-12-2010, 12:00 AM
Your "basjoo" at the end there looks to be a ginger, maybe a Curcuma but I don't know too much about gingers.

Mar46396
10-12-2010, 08:45 AM
Your "basjoo" at the end there looks to be a ginger, maybe a Curcuma but I don't know too much about gingers.

Thanks Gabe, I didn't think it looked like a banana either, but I'm far from an expert. The leaves closed themselves totally into tube-like shapes when temps started getting into the 50s and opened again the next day in the sunlight. It was around 2 feet tall last summer and overwintered in the house with no water and died back to the soil. I put it out this spring in a pot and kept it watered well and that was all the growth I got. I found a picture on google images that looks pretty close to what I have that is the picture at the bottom. It's a ginger plant.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37396&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37396)

http://ablackorchid.com/ElPescadorGinger.jpg