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Olafhenny
07-21-2012, 07:54 PM
Of cannas and bananas, under stress and in opulence.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=49798 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=49798&ppuser=7269)

[B]These cannas are clearly showing signs of feeling good in a planter with 27” deep soil and compost. I stuck the chair there simply to indicate scale.




http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=49799 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=49799&ppuser=7269)

These plants are clearly under stress, same age and size when they were planted out, but subject to flooding since the middle of May with the water level of the pond, only 3feet away from the plant to the left only between 4 and 10 inches below the top of soil at the plants all that time.

Interesting observations: The lower leaves were formed during the early stages of the flood and look quite sickly, while the cannas seemed to have adapted to the soggy conditions over time and now sport much healthier looking foliage. Still the stress is evident, because they all have flower stalks, while the same age cannas in better environments show no flower stems yet. That seems to confirm, that stress triggers propagation mechanisms.




http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=49796 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=49796&ppuser=7269)

This canna, sharing a large elevated pot (in one of my ‘pot pyramids’) with a Musa Ornata has good soil, but not in such massive supply as the one in the top photo and is accordingly a good foot shorter at this time, though healthy and in no rush to bloom.




http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=49797 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=49797&ppuser=7269)

This shot shows the bananas, which were rather unimpressed by the ample supply of prime soil and have consequently been dwarfed by the cannas. The one in the background is a young basjoo and the other two, still connected by a common corm and so far producing one pup between them are Ornatas.

sandy0225
07-28-2012, 03:52 PM
very nice cannas and bananas. They are all looking happy!

cincinnana
07-28-2012, 06:01 PM
Hi Olaf,

From a previous post, I really love your lig. I have a rocket and I love it. From thee posted pics it looks like your plants are all doing well. I like your castor bean and your hosta--sum and substance perhaps? And your petunias look knockout. I would like to post pics of my stuff directly but it looks like my alternative would be photobucket. I am leery about their privacy policy. For some reason I cannot upload to this site.

Best,

Mike:08:

Olafhenny
07-28-2012, 07:00 PM
Hi Olaf,

From a previous post, I really love your lig. I have a rocket and I love it. From thee posted pics it looks like your plants are all doing well. I like your castor bean and your hosta--sum and substance perhaps? And your petunias look knockout. I would like to post pics of my stuff directly but it looks like my alternative would be photobucket. I am leery about their privacy policy. For some reason I cannot upload to this site.

Best,

Mike:08:

Hi Mike,
do you have trouble uploading from "My Documents" on your hard drive? If so, try using a different
browser. I could not do it with FireFox, so I switched to Outlook Express. It worked, but I did not
like all their commercials, so i switched again to Google Chrome. That has served me well since.

I am glad, that you like my castor beans. I am really enthused about the new Ricinus communis
'New Zealand Purple'. I have had the ricinus communis purple for a few years now and really
liked it, even though it was quite subceptible to bugs.

The arrival of the seeds of the NZ from a friend was delayed due to a snafu by the post office and
I could not sow them as early as I wanted to. Therefore it is a bit behind the R. C. purple and
at this time I am keeping my fingers crossed, that there will be enough time for the seeds to fully
ripen.

But here is the kicker: The two Castors are sitting side by side in my planter, but the NZ
version is completely unaffected by bugs, while the other one is laced with "chew holes".

I am going to post more on this, as soon as the NZ is blooming for comparison.