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Eric-Orlando,FL
02-19-2007, 05:23 PM
My Musa 'Ele Ele' at my house is just beginning to flower. It is only about 7ft tall, shorter than the 15-20ft they usually get. It has developed nice coloring at the bases of the leaves. I was afraid we would get a light frost Fri. night but it only got down to 36F.

http://new.photos.yahoo.com/leu242/album/576460762342351064/photo/294928804240086613/23

Eric

mrbungalow
02-20-2007, 05:40 AM
Looks nice! Do you have a photo of the whole plant? I love to see those black trunks on this cultivar!

:banana_ba

PaulOdin
02-20-2007, 05:14 PM
Nice plant! Did you buy it locally? (I'm over in Leesburg.) If you get some pups I'd like to trade for one- I have extra Pitogo, Dwarf Brazilian or Double, at 18" to 3'.

Paul

Greenie
02-20-2007, 11:35 PM
Cool!

Eric-Orlando,FL
02-21-2007, 08:41 AM
I bought this at the Leu Gardens sale a couple of years ago. I work there and we had got some trays of banana plugs to grow and sell at our sales. I planted it out in Sept. 2005 and it really didn't have any of the dark coloring until this past summer. It also hasn't produced any pups yet. I think we still have some 'Ele Ele' plants in the greenhouse that we will have at the Spring Plant Sale coming up.

MediaHound
02-21-2007, 05:30 PM
Ele Ele in the wiki:
http://www.bananas.org/wiki/Musa_'Ele_Ele' (http://www.bananas.org/wiki/Musa_%27Ele_Ele%27)

:)

PaulOdin
02-23-2007, 06:29 AM
Eric- let us know when the plant sale is going to be. We have several members around Orlando, and I'd like to get there.

Paul

Eric-Orlando,FL
02-27-2007, 09:04 AM
The Spring Plant Sale here at Leu Gardens is March 24 & 25th (Sat. and Sun.), 9-5 both days. members only on Sat. from 8-9am. In addition, Going Bananas will be set up and selling bananas, too.

PaulOdin
02-27-2007, 05:54 PM
Thank you, Eric. It sounds like something to get to, on both counts.

Paul

jeffreyp
02-27-2007, 09:13 PM
My Musa 'Ele Ele' at my house is just beginning to flower. It is only about 7ft tall, shorter than the 15-20ft they usually get. It has developed nice coloring at the bases of the leaves. I was afraid we would get a light frost Fri. night but it only got down to 36F.

http://new.photos.yahoo.com/leu242/album/576460762342351064/photo/294928804240086613/23

Eric

Nice pics Eric, thanks for posting. Unrelated question...hows the musa ingens doing? If it has gotten any bigger, have you considered donating it to agristarts? I am sure you could command a nice commission off that one..

Eric-Orlando,FL
02-28-2007, 08:29 AM
It died a couple of months ago. It still only had grown 3 leaves since germinating.

PaulOdin
03-20-2007, 07:19 PM
Eric, do you know of anything interesting at the Leu Gardens sale this weekend?

Paul

Eric-Orlando,FL
03-22-2007, 07:54 AM
There are about 40 vendors this year, including Going Bananas. I am running the Leu Gardens booth and have a few bananas for sale;

'Ele Ele'
'Mahoi'
'Pitogo'
cheesmani
sikkimensis
xishuangbannaensis