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Blake09
11-07-2010, 10:45 AM
...to over winter my bananas. :coldbanana: :hiddenbanana: In this post I am overwintering m. basjoo (shorter one) and Ice Cream 'blue java' (the tallest).
From this:
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37741&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37741)
To this:
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38234&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38234)
And then this:
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38235&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38235)
And this is how I did it:
YouTube - Overwintering bananas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqPkEV7P8YI)
I learned alot along the way, and also made mistakes too. :eek: :o I didnt show, but I stuffed the barrels with straw.:hiddenbanana:
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I had some Guinea Fowl help along the way too: :bananas_b
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38236&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38236)
;)
Some of the hundreds of Banana leaves... future compost, and guinea fowl food :Dhttp://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38237&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38237)
I will be showing how I protected the bananas around my pond next...
:drum::lurk::drum:
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Very cool and well done Blake!:woohoonaner: Nice to see I'm not the only one with piles of banana leaves all over the yard!:ha:
Jananas Bananas
11-07-2010, 11:27 AM
Good JOB Blake! :waving: Your Guineas are so cute!
~JaNan
The Hollyberry Lady
11-07-2010, 11:44 AM
Way cool, Blake!!! :goteam:
: )
Olafhenny
11-09-2010, 06:44 PM
Thank you, Blake, I really like your approach. It gives the plant some room and some air.
Thanks for sharing. That alone makes the 5 bucks I had to lay out to join the B.ORG worthwhile. :nanadrink:
Best.
Olaf
eric27
11-09-2010, 08:54 PM
Great video Blake! Thanks. Have you used this method before?
Blake09
11-09-2010, 09:08 PM
Great video Blake! Thanks. Have you used this method before?
Thanks! :)
No I havent used this method before. I just has some spare barrels laying around and wanted them to go to use. I think that in this method you could use many different insulators, like foam, fiberglass, leaves, straw, etc and then also wrap big X-mas lights around the p-stem. But the bananas are way to far from an outlit, and I had some straw leftover and I used it. As they say: *Reduce, Reuse, Recycle* :D
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palmtree
11-09-2010, 09:27 PM
Very cool! How old is your ice cream banana? I plan on putting mine in the ground next summer, but I think Ill dig it up in the fall.
Blake09
11-09-2010, 09:42 PM
Both of my bananas have been with me for a year, I dont know how long before me though.
The Ice Cream might be 2 years old, but again Ive only had it for 1 year. Ime hoping for a bloom (and fruit) next year, thats why I didnt chop it down.
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asacomm
11-09-2010, 09:51 PM
Very good job and I do hope it would work!
eric27
11-09-2010, 09:53 PM
Thanks! :)
No I havent used this method before. I just has some spare barrels laying around and wanted them to go to use. I think that in this method you could use many different insulators, like foam, fiberglass, leaves, straw, etc and then also wrap big X-mas lights around the p-stem. But the bananas are way to far from an outlit, and I had some straw leftover and I used it. As they say: *Reduce, Reuse, Recycle* :D
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Let us know how they turn out in spring. That is a pretty interesting method you have there. I'm curious how they turn out.
Blake09
06-03-2011, 06:29 PM
Update....
:drum:
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43251&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43251)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43252&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43252)
Ice cream:
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43250&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43250)
Mother basjoo and her two pups:
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43247&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43247)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43248&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43248)
New basjoo matt:
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43249&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43249)
My basjoo and her two pups overwintered fine and it was pushing up a leaf in earley febuary. It and its two pups lost no p-stem over the winter it now has three pups, the two big ones that you see and one small one about 4in tall so far. My Ice Cream died in the spring time, its p-stem survived over the winter but never pushed up a leaf in the spring. The ice creams pup survived over the winter and was growing like crazy wile the mother plants p-stem slowley withered. The one Ice cream pup that I have now put out a pup and I am now back up to having two ICe Cream plants. The new basjoo mat that I have, I picked up four banana plants last fall at a local persons house and only two survived and poped up over the summer. My Truley tiney plant died but I had saved one pup inside and It is growing now in the old truley tiney's place by the pond.
cherokee_greg
09-25-2011, 10:45 AM
I never saw this before wow your mind must go a million miles a second ! What ideas you come up with. My chickens love the leaves too.
LOL Good job.
...to over winter my bananas. :coldbanana: :hiddenbanana: In this post I am overwintering m. basjoo (shorter one) and Ice Cream 'blue java' (the tallest).
From this:
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37741&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37741)
To this:
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38234&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38234)
And then this:
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38235&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38235)
And this is how I did it:
YouTube - Overwintering bananas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqPkEV7P8YI)
I learned alot along the way, and also made mistakes too. :eek: :o I didnt show, but I stuffed the barrels with straw.
:hiddenbanana:
-------------------------------------------------------
I had some Guinea Fowl help along the way too: :bananas_b
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38236&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38236)
;)
Some of the hundreds of Banana leaves... future compost, and guinea fowl food :Dhttp://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38237&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38237)
I will be showing how I protected the bananas around my pond next...
:drum::lurk::drum:
.
Blake09
09-25-2011, 08:18 PM
Heres a update pic on the main banana garden:
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=45931&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=45931)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=45932&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=45932)
orinoko
09-26-2011, 01:47 AM
Thanks Blake!!
Blake09
10-30-2011, 08:23 PM
The time has come once again. We had our first frost last night, see the damage here: http://www.bananas.org/f15/my-bananas-end-season-14607.html The old farmers almanac was 2 days off of the frost prediction, far better than our local forcast. ;)
Alocasia elephant ears packed up and ready to go:
http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/zz333/Plants_2010/My%20Plants/In%20the%20garden%202011/008-1.jpg
http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/zz333/Plants_2010/My%20Plants/In%20the%20garden%202011/018.jpg
Truley tiney:
http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/zz333/Plants_2010/My%20Plants/In%20the%20garden%202011/019.jpg
http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/zz333/Plants_2010/My%20Plants/In%20the%20garden%202011/020.jpg
http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/zz333/Plants_2010/My%20Plants/In%20the%20garden%202011/021-1.jpg
http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/zz333/Plants_2010/My%20Plants/In%20the%20garden%202011/022.jpg
http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/zz333/Plants_2010/My%20Plants/In%20the%20garden%202011/025.jpg
pup found after digging up the mulch:
http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/zz333/Plants_2010/My%20Plants/In%20the%20garden%202011/026.jpg
http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/zz333/Plants_2010/My%20Plants/In%20the%20garden%202011/029.jpg
http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/zz333/Plants_2010/My%20Plants/In%20the%20garden%202011/031.jpg
http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/zz333/Plants_2010/My%20Plants/In%20the%20garden%202011/033.jpg
All done with the truley tiney:
http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/zz333/Plants_2010/My%20Plants/In%20the%20garden%202011/036.jpg
Sorry about the blurry pics, the camera does not do good in low light. More bananas to come!
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