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carlosfv
08-07-2007, 02:59 PM
Hello forall the people

I,m amatuer banana´s grower


I live in the north coast Spain (Santander), and I have a little orchard near the coast (5 Km). In the city the USDA are 10, in my orchard USDA zone are 9b (lowest minimun registerd many years ago -5ºC, usually 10-15 days in winter -1 to -2ºC and snow every 5-10 years).
I have many suptropicals with diferent succes, all the plans and treesare young (2-6 years old). At the moement I collect treestomatos, cape goosberry, passion fruit, raisins (hovenia dulcis), prickly pear, and of course figs, permissons, kiwifruit, peach, pears, apples,cherrys plums etc. some years ago I planted musas ( i think basjoos), at this moment I have basjoos, velutinas that fruiting without problems, ensetes( I nevercan get fruu¡inting ans some died) many others musas unknow This year I obtain helen´s hybrid and sikimensis from seeds,and I buy dwarf cavendish, super dwarf cavendish, dwarf orinico and double mahoi, the last of them are yet in pot until the next spring.

I have interest in chage coments in the forums and on trades our plants

barna
08-08-2007, 12:43 PM
Hola Carlos

Bienvenido, yo soy de Barcelona, asi que no estamos tan lejos.

This forum is really interesting and you will meet very nice people from around the world, and a few European ¡¡ :)

Nice pictures of your garden. The second picture seems to me a M. basjoo. were did you get it? It is not a common banana to be found in Spain. I brought mine from France and the "Sakhalin" one from UK there are some pictures in my Gallery

I am in zone 9a USDA and I have a few collection of Musas some planted in the ground some in pots

mrbungalow
08-08-2007, 01:15 PM
Hola Carlos, y bienvendio

The north of spain is a real interesting climatic zone, since its' cooler and rains more. I bet you still have better weather than me here in Bergen.

It will be fun to hear about your experiences with bananas on the north-coast of spain. I travel to spain quite often, so maybe we can exchange plants in the future.

Barna, please check your private messages.

Erlend

MediaHound
08-08-2007, 08:02 PM
Hola, bienvenidos!

Sounds like you have a wonderful collection of plants :)

carlosfv
08-09-2007, 12:59 AM
Hi all people again

Barna effectively my basjoos are not from Spain, many years ago I obtain one from belgium. usually here in Santander many orchards have bananas medium siza but I´m not know what sspp are, usually here the bunchs are small and the bananas too, 1cm by 3-4 cm. I have one from Barcelona that I see produce small bananas 2-3cmm by 10-12 cm some of them are in the Zoo, Barna do you know what species are?


greetings for all

carlos

mrbungalow
08-09-2007, 02:12 AM
Carlos, try planting several basjoos together and see if they can get pollinated. This way, you should get bigger bananas with seeds as well!

Basjoo seeds seem to be extremely sought after worldwide.

Erlend

the flying dutchman
08-09-2007, 07:06 AM
Hola Carlos, bienvenido tambien, yo soy en Holanda pero yo me ha visitar
Espana muchos veces cuando joben. Yo me gusta Barcelona y todo Catalonia.
No conocce Santander.

Requerdos

Ron

barna
08-09-2007, 04:14 PM
uaooo¡¡¡
Everyone seems to speak Spanish here .. :)

The only Banana species planted at the Barcelona Zoo are two M. basjoo and several M. x paradisiaca from different origins but all from unknown variety.
I have a picture on my gallery were you can see a banana bunch in front of the basjoo one.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=3978&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=3978)

There are some M x paradisica semi-cold hardy varieties, traditionally cultivated in Garden of the area of Barcelona but nobody knows the cultivar

Probably your is one of these

Conrad