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caliboy1994
03-21-2012, 09:30 PM
The Mysore plant that I got last November really took a beating from the Santa Ana Winds over the off season. It lost three leaves, and pushed out a really unhealthy looking one. I thought that it would probably have a slow recovery. But then, today, I saw this poking out of the soil...
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=48183&size=1
It'll be interesting to see how fast it grows, as it's coming off of an underground corm. I'll keep you guys posted.
Richard
03-22-2012, 12:12 AM
Cool.
caliboy1994
03-24-2012, 08:59 PM
Here it is, just two days later, and it's almost doubled in size.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=48222&size=1
I'd say this is pretty good considering nighttime lows here are still in the 40s.
caliboy1994
03-26-2012, 11:13 PM
Still growing despite the cold weather and rain.
venturabananas
03-27-2012, 12:55 AM
Still growing despite the cold weather and rain.
They should really pick up the pace of growth over the next few weeks. Longer days and warmer temperatures.
sunfish
03-27-2012, 08:39 AM
They should really pick up the pace of growth over the next few weeks. Longer days and warmer temperatures.
That would be nice.
caliboy1994
03-27-2012, 10:52 AM
They should really pick up the pace of growth over the next few weeks. Longer days and warmer temperatures.
Yeah, because some of my friends and relatives are expecting banana pups from me...:ha::ha::ha:
caliboy1994
03-28-2012, 09:13 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=48309&size=1
It's getting big. Any reason why it's growing to the side?
natej740
03-28-2012, 09:52 PM
It should straighten up once it gets a leaf or two out.
caliboy1994
04-01-2012, 09:45 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=48333&size=1
Wow, talk about impressive growth! What really amazes me is that it's growing like this and nighttime lows are still in the 40s. Thanks Richard for the Banana Fuel! :D
venturabananas
04-02-2012, 01:06 AM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=48333&size=1
Wow, talk about impressive growth! What really amazes me is that it's growing like this and nighttime lows are still in the 40s.
Pups can really grow fast -- there's all that stored energy in the mother corm. The rate of growth is speeding up, now that Spring has sprung.
caliboy1994
04-02-2012, 01:35 AM
I just hope that things get even warmer soon. Spring still hasn't fully sprung yet for us here. The other plants are growing, but very slowly.
caliboy1994
04-08-2012, 12:09 AM
WOW! I can't believe how much this thing has grown in just four days! I come home from Las Vegas to find that this pup has almost doubled in height! Pictures coming tomorrow.
caliboy1994
04-08-2012, 05:13 PM
Here it is...
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=48410&size=1
I also noticed that one of the pups on my Not Ice Cream has actually began to actively grow. It's been sitting doing almost nothing for months.
kaczercat
04-08-2012, 05:35 PM
That looks good, It's comming along . I'm hoping for some pups this year! my plants are getting pretty big.
caliboy1994
04-08-2012, 06:10 PM
I'm getting this in the ground hopefully next Saturday. I can't wait to see it take off!
caliboy1994
04-25-2012, 10:16 PM
It's making tons of progress! Unfortunately, I lost the main stem :(
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=48620&size=1
venturabananas
04-26-2012, 10:00 AM
It's making tons of progress! Unfortunately, I lost the main stem :(
Well, don't feel bad about losing the main stem, you have company. That happened to me with a couple of plants last winter, but the pups that came up grew very rapidly and outgrew the main stems of some other plants. The lesson I learned was don't buy bananas before winter. But when banana fever takes hold, it's hard to take that advice!
PS -- Mulch your bananas. Especially in your hot, dry climate, they will appreciate it.
caliboy1994
04-26-2012, 01:09 PM
Thanks. I've already put some cocoa mulch down, maybe an inch thick layer. Should I put more?
venturabananas
04-26-2012, 02:38 PM
Thanks. I've already put some cocoa mulch down, maybe an inch thick layer. Should I put more?
Go for at least two inches of mulch. Four inches would be even better.
caliboy1994
04-26-2012, 05:46 PM
Will do. It's sort of wet outside right now after the rain, should I wait until next week when it warms up?
sunfish
04-26-2012, 05:48 PM
Will do. It's sort of wet outside right now after the rain, should I wait until next week when it warms up?
Mulch is to keep moisture in so
caliboy1994
05-07-2012, 09:41 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=48734&size=1
palmtree
05-07-2012, 11:31 PM
Looks great! Glad to see that it made a comeback!
caliboy1994
05-07-2012, 11:52 PM
It's the fastest growing of all my plants right now.
Iunepeace
05-15-2012, 01:06 AM
It's the fastest growing of all my plants right now.
That's great! I have what I'm beginning to suspect is a Mysore and it's growing quite fast too! I'm relieved to see your Mysore has blood marks since my possible does as well, and I wasn't totally sure whether they did get those or not (I thought so since they're AAB genetically).
Yours is almost as big as mine is, and it's been growing for weeks in the Caribbean, so you must be doing something right! :D
caliboy1994
05-15-2012, 01:09 AM
Unfortunately now mine has appeared to have come down with a case of BSV....If it doesn't get better I might have to replace it with Pisang Ceylon.
Iunepeace
05-15-2012, 02:55 AM
Sorry to hear that :( I hope it perks up. I have no idea what a Pisang Ceylon is (lol) but the name sounds awesome! :D
venturabananas
05-15-2012, 10:38 AM
I have no idea what a Pisang Ceylon is (lol) but the name sounds awesome! :D
It's just a Mysore clone that has no banana streak virus. From what I can tell, that's the only difference between it and the "standard" Mysore. Appearance, size, fruit characteristics are all supposed to be the same.
Iunepeace
05-15-2012, 10:52 AM
That sounds lovely then!
On a side note, Mysores are AAB right? So that's somewhat open petioles and light wine staining? :)
Beautiful Rajapuri flower by the way! :D (For some reason I can't comment in the photo gallery so I'll mention it here). It's so huge and thickly colored! How long did that stem take to flower?
venturabananas
05-15-2012, 11:00 AM
On a side note, Mysores are AAB right? So that's somewhat open petioles and light wine staining? :)
Beautiful Rajapuri flower by the way! :D (For some reason I can't comment in the photo gallery so I'll mention it here). It's so huge and thickly colored! How long did that stem take to flower?
The Mysore subgroup is AAB. There's lots of variation in appearance within this subgroup. Pomes have more open petioles than Mysore, though both are AAB. But yes, Mysore has light wine staining on water pups and somewhat open petioles.
Thanks for the comments on the Rajapuri. It took about 20 months to flower, but in a nice warm place like where you live, I'm sure it would be much faster to flower.
Iunepeace
05-15-2012, 11:47 AM
The Mysore subgroup is AAB. There's lots of variation in appearance within this subgroup. Pomes have more open petioles than Mysore, though both are AAB. But yes, Mysore has light wine staining on water pups and somewhat open petioles.
Thanks for the comments on the Rajapuri. It took about 20 months to flower, but in a nice warm place like where you live, I'm sure it would be much faster to flower.
Thanks for the informative response; you're quite knowledgeable! :D So from what you're telling me Mysore is more a group than a specific variety; that'd explain the variation people experience between their individual plants. In all fairness, my plant doesn't have any choice but to be "water suckery" since it's a long pseudostem, having just been used to start a new mat, and can't very well support itself on sword leaves lol.
No problem about the Rajapuri; it truly is a beauty, warms the heart to see :) And I have to admit my heart skipped a bit of a beat when my eyes flashed across that 20 lol :ha: but glad to hear that's in a climate that gets horrendously cold weather; it should flower much sooner over here :D
Has any banana you had ever fruited much quicker than that?
caliboy1994
05-15-2012, 05:32 PM
I think I'm going to wait another month and see if it starts recovering. If not, I'll reconsider it at that point.
venturabananas
05-15-2012, 05:35 PM
I think I'm going to wait another month and see if it starts recovering. If not, I'll reconsider it at that point.
Good plan. My banana plants often behave strangely after a heavy dose of fertilizer.
venturabananas
05-16-2012, 12:31 AM
Thanks for the informative response; you're quite knowledgeable! :D So from what you're telling me Mysore is more a group than a specific variety; that'd explain the variation people experience between their individual plants. In all fairness, my plant doesn't have any choice but to be "water suckery" since it's a long pseudostem, having just been used to start a new mat, and can't very well support itself on sword leaves lol.
No problem about the Rajapuri; it truly is a beauty, warms the heart to see :) And I have to admit my heart skipped a bit of a beat when my eyes flashed across that 20 lol :ha: but glad to hear that's in a climate that gets horrendously cold weather; it should flower much sooner over here :D
Has any banana you had ever fruited much quicker than that?
Thanks. As a biologist, I was kind of driven to learn more about bananas after I planted my first one a couple of years ago. I gave myself a crash course with the help of lots of folks on the org. And there's lots of good resources on the internet. But compared to people who actually work on bananas, I'm still a novice.
Yes, there is an entire "subgroup" of bananas called Mysore. There is also a specific cultivar called Mysore. I doubt anyone really knows how many distinct cultivars there are in the Mysore subgroup, because a single cultivar can go by all sorts of different names in different places. But the variation you see among plants called Mysore on this site probably has more to do with different growing conditions (and misidentifications) than with genetic differences among varieties of Mysore bananas.
Yes, Ventura is not the tropics, but it is only "horrendously cold" by Bahamian standards! It doesn't even freeze here, unlike what many people on the org experience. What we don't really ever get is hot and humid. A normal summer day here has a high in the high 60's - low 70's and a low in the high 50's - low 60's; which won't give you maximal banana growth rates. And then we have the 4 months or so when the bananas really don't grow at all.
The quickest I've had any variety flower was 15 months from planting. I expect that'll speed up a bit now that the mats have big corms with lots of energy reserves. But my plants will never grow at tropical rates. Yours will grow much faster than mine.
caliboy1994
05-16-2012, 12:47 AM
Despite the fact that I only live around 45 miles away from him, our climates are significantly different. He lives near the coast, and I live about 20 miles inland. During the summer, his days are much cooler, while ours our much hotter. In winter, though, things are pretty similar. In coastal California, marine influence is everything. A scorching hot 100 degree day inland can be a cool and breezy 70 degree day just 20 miles away at the beach.
venturabananas
05-16-2012, 11:37 AM
Despite the fact that I only live around 45 miles away from him, our climates are significantly different. He lives near the coast, and I live about 20 miles inland. During the summer, his days are much cooler, while ours our much hotter. In winter, though, things are pretty similar. In coastal California, marine influence is everything. A scorching hot 100 degree day inland can be a cool and breezy 70 degree day just 20 miles away at the beach.
So true. I work near where Caliboy lives. A 30 degree difference in temperature is the norm during summer between the San Fernando Valley and Ventura. One day it was over 40 degrees different, about 110 in the valley and 65 in Ventura.
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