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xeriscape8321
07-01-2015, 02:44 PM
Hi everyone i just wanted to introduce myself. I am primarily a brugmansia grower who recently became interested in growing out the variegated bananas. I have acquired 3 D'ang "Florida" but the shapes of the leaves and trunk thickness have me thinking one may be AeAe but there is so little information out there (i have tried to read it all, from various internet sources), much of it is confusing. I love the variegation on the plants so i will just have to wait until they fruit...they are still young, but very beautiful. I also acquired a small variegated Dwarf Nam Wah...pretty little thing...lastly I accidentally purchased from TyTy (under a pseudo name) a Musa Meta Chimera which is basically a variegated sport of a field banana they say. i was lucky. I received a nice thick corm that grew into a very pretty variegated plant very quickly...the variegation is "brush stroke" type as described by TyTy.....i was very shocked when the shipping notice came in and it said it was being shipped from Ty Ty nurseries....I was a gardenweb member for years and TyTy has a horrific rating. I was lucky though. what i received i am very happy with and it has quadrupled in size and kept its variegation through out ...all in all a lucky happy camper!
Gary

Snarkie
07-01-2015, 03:00 PM
Hi Gary. Welcome aboard the Banana Express! :nanerwaveytrain:

xeriscape8321
07-01-2015, 03:20 PM
My babies
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Snarkie
07-01-2015, 03:30 PM
They look great!

xeriscape8321
07-01-2015, 03:37 PM
Thank you...if there is anyplace bananas love to grow its here in south florida...I also have a jamaican red and a dbl mahoy....also small but doing well....I am def hooked!

kubali
07-01-2015, 03:37 PM
Welcome aboard,
pull up a chair and have some fun learning.

xeriscape8321
07-01-2015, 03:49 PM
Thanks Kubali, but what i am learning is very similar to how i learned about brugmansias 15 years ago...all the good information has to come straight from the growers first hand...there are no text book definitions that give you "everything" about growing out variegated or non variegated bananas....there will be trial and errors, scams and schemes.... you just have to learn from people who have experienced it before you first hand

kubali
07-01-2015, 04:34 PM
Thanks Kubali, but what i am learning is very similar to how i learned about brugmansias 15 years ago...all the good information has to come straight from the growers first hand...there are no text book definitions that give you "everything" about growing out variegated or non variegated bananas....there will be trial and errors, scams and schemes.... you just have to learn from people who have experienced it before you first hand

there is a member that has a lot of knowledge and a expert on growing variegated bananas here on banana.org goes by the name pr giants read his articles u can get a lot of info from them.

xeriscape8321
07-01-2015, 04:35 PM
thanks...will do

cincinnana
07-01-2015, 09:21 PM
Welcome to the Jungle...:woohoonaner:
I love your collection.

Kat2
07-02-2015, 09:15 PM
Are you a FL transplant? I am. I've gardened quite successfully in the North but find it vastly different here even North of you. I'm loving the frost free zone but summer is the pits. Tomorrow I'm going to pull the "native" raspberries I set out in "native soil" and put in pots because, despite watering, they're dying; I may have lost them. Wrong time to put anything in the ground here. September or perhaps October is when I'll plant permanently--after amending beds with a bit of real dirt.

xeriscape8321
07-03-2015, 01:25 PM
I'm originally from NY but i have been in FTL 27 years....The few brutal months of summer is worth the blissful winters....You are right when you say summertime is not planting time here...most plants (other than native troicals) are in survival mode during the summer.