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dana mastro
11-11-2013, 05:04 PM
so I buy bananas all around from wellspring gardens to Florida hills nursery to parts of main India/ Indonesia and apparently I can get plants shipped all the way across the world and have them be just fine I've gotten sticks for bananas before and they grow up to be beautiful banana plants ......YET 6/8 FLORIDA HILLS BANANAS IVE GOTTTEN HAS DIED! there always burns at the bottom from some chemical that kills them. can someone answer what chemical it is? and why they use it?
edzone9
11-11-2013, 07:05 PM
I will never order from FH ... Going Bananas or Wellsprings is the way to go..
sunfish
11-11-2013, 07:46 PM
so I buy bananas all around from wellspring gardens to Florida hills nursery to parts of main India/ Indonesia and apparently I can get plants shipped all the way across the world and have them be just fine I've gotten sticks for bananas before and they grow up to be beautiful banana plants ......YET 6/8 FLORIDA HILLS BANANAS IVE GOTTTEN HAS DIED! there always burns at the bottom from some chemical that kills them. can someone answer what chemical it is? and why they use it?
Picture please
bengal tiger nanas
11-11-2013, 08:09 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=55136&size=1here is a picture of a siam ruby from fh, got this in feb. pic. is in july.i was fine with this, but, orders after feb. well i wasnt happy.
chipboy44
11-11-2013, 09:01 PM
I have ordered several plantains in the past years and none of them have ever managed to stay alive. I still not able to give up ordered a plantain and a super plantain. Getting them they were 2 feet tall they managed to not only stay alive but grow like crazy. Living in Daytona Beach we were lucky enough to go 2 winters without a frost and they grew like crazy. The first plantain flowered and fruited only to look like a regular tall ornioco, that didn't even ripen the fruit. The second one, the super plantain did the same as the first, so I figured that they came from the same tray of [plants. I don't know if it is the TVC lab that is messing up or the nursery that is careless in their care for their plants all I know is, I will not buy from someone with a proven plant even if it cost more. It is worth to get what I want not a 2 year project that turns out to be a waste and major disappointment disappointment.
Salute'
rick
Nicolas Naranja
11-11-2013, 10:19 PM
I have ordered several plantains in the past years and none of them have ever managed to stay alive. I still not able to give up ordered a plantain and a super plantain. Getting them they were 2 feet tall they managed to not only stay alive but grow like crazy. Living in Daytona Beach we were lucky enough to go 2 winters without a frost and they grew like crazy. The first plantain flowered and fruited only to look like a regular tall ornioco, that didn't even ripen the fruit. The second one, the super plantain did the same as the first, so I figured that they came from the same tray of [plants. I don't know if it is the TVC lab that is messing up or the nursery that is careless in their care for their plants all I know is, I will not buy from someone with a proven plant even if it cost more. It is worth to get what I want not a 2 year project that turns out to be a waste and major disappointment disappointment.
Salute'
rick
The super plantains are a french type of plantain. The fruit are typically smaller. I have fruited five different types of plantains and I have my 6th and 7th growing from TC. One thing I will say is that sometimes you will get shorter fruit if the fertilizer and water aren't adequate.
dana mastro
11-11-2013, 11:51 PM
I ordered all of mine around after august some in September that's prolly why but yes I will put some pics of them tomorow so you can see what I mean about the chemical burns but they are cut now to the bottom try to save them but ill just put pics of all of them
Richard
11-11-2013, 11:55 PM
The "burns" might not be chemical in nature.
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