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Botanical_Bryce
12-16-2015, 10:47 PM
I live in central Florida zone 9 and joined to get banana help and find varieties for my homestead project. I have several kinds but only one good for my area. Glad to have joined
Central FL is a pretty big area. Editing your profile to show your city is a good way to find members near you who may have pups of the plants you seek.
Botanical_Bryce
12-16-2015, 11:50 PM
Why do people have to be near me? I can drive if needed and the mail is international. I trade and buy plants all over the country and i have driven as much as 400 miles to get plants. If someone won't offer or want my money because I'm not in their back yard then I don't need to deal with them anyway.
cincinnana
12-17-2015, 06:24 AM
Welcome to the Jungle!!:woohoonaner:
Central Florida and South Florida has a great variety of banana plant selections from members.
Putting a post in the banana plants wanted section on the the varieties you might want is a good idea.
Many gems can be found on Treasure coast Craigslist also, many just to the south and east.
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https://cfl.craigslist.org/search/gra?search_distance_type=mi&query=banana+plants
What is the good performer in your yard?
HMelendez
12-17-2015, 08:56 AM
Welcome to the banana gang!.....
Botanical_Bryce
12-17-2015, 09:06 AM
Only banana I am looking for at the moment is Veinte Cohol. I don't know what my hardy one is. All I know is they grow 13 feet tall and produce small tasty seedless fruits. Been growing on the Crystal River Kings Bay shore for 60 years or more. Growing in coastal muck and limestone forest. Have to pull down the plant to get to the fruit.
Snarkie
12-17-2015, 12:31 PM
Welcome to the Banana Express. :nanerwaveytrain:
Mark Dragt
12-18-2015, 12:00 PM
Why do people have to be near me? I can drive if needed and the mail is international. I trade and buy plants all over the country and i have driven as much as 400 miles to get plants. If someone won't offer or want my money because I'm not in their back yard then I don't need to deal with them anyway.
You didn't sugar coat that one! I like it! I like pup trading. Most of my trades have been with my good friend Al. Al lives 2000 miles away. If the plants are packed with a little care, they can travel very well. If I had a extra Veinte Cohol I would send it to you. I do not, will not sell plants. I trade or give them away. You being in Florida, I would think you have a much bigger selection of locally grown banana plants to choose from than I do. Local plants in my area are few and far between.
Welcome to the org! I hope you feel at home here.
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Snarkie
12-18-2015, 12:22 PM
If the plants are packed with a little care, they can travel very well.
Pack 'em in dry ice so they don't spoil, LOL! :ha:
Mark Dragt
12-18-2015, 12:31 PM
Pack 'em in dry ice so they don't spoil, LOL! :ha:
To our readers of the org. Packing banana plants in dry ice is not only a bad idea, it's a very bad idea. Good one Doug. Wet ice would also be a bad idea.
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Botanical_Bryce
12-18-2015, 12:37 PM
If I ship my plants with dry ice, do I pretreat with roundup first?
Snarkie
12-18-2015, 12:42 PM
To all the new readers out there, I was being factitious, as my character frequently manifests itself. :ha:
DO NOT, under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, pack your bananas in ice; wet or dry! :coldbanana:
Snarkie
12-18-2015, 12:47 PM
If I ship my plants with dry ice, do I pretreat with roundup first?It can't hurt, but you might also add a little Chlordane or DDT to help out with potential pests as well. :D
Glad you have a sense of humor!
Botanical_Bryce
12-18-2015, 01:05 PM
Humor? Never heard if this. Is it a type of banana?
Snarkie
12-18-2015, 01:12 PM
Humor? Never heard if this. Is it a type of banana?Yes!
They are typically coated in chocolate and frozen in wet ice. You might find them on a mobile dispenser that plays "Do Your Ears Hang Low."
I believe the common name is Good Humor. Latin name of Musa humorous v. Snarkieosis. Hope this helps...
Botanical_Bryce
12-18-2015, 01:27 PM
I knew that. Has the flavor of love with a touch of romance..
Mark Dragt
12-18-2015, 07:53 PM
And with a pinch of magic sparkle you can get them to grow real big and strong.
:woohoonaner:
Snarkie
12-19-2015, 10:58 AM
And with a pinch of magic sparkle you can get them to grow real big and strong.
:woohoonaner:You mean like this?
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59230 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59157&ppuser=19953)
Mark Dragt
12-19-2015, 03:52 PM
You mean like this?
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59230 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59157&ppuser=19953)
Yes, just like that!
siege2050
12-20-2015, 09:53 PM
You might have luck with Viente Cohol there where its warmer, but everywhere else it seems to be cranky and dies back before it blooms, and I pretty much want to throw mine off a cliff but just cant do it for some reason. I stashed mine under about 400 pounds of roots, tubers, bulbs, and 10 foot long Musa Orinoco stems under my house till spring as I have given up trying to grow it for fruit.
siege2050
12-20-2015, 09:56 PM
I did keep one veinte cohol pup in the house as a backup, and it's growing nicely, but it is about due to dieback for no reason whatsoever in a few weeks I imagine. So may launch it from a catapult this spring not sure.
Botanical_Bryce
12-21-2015, 09:01 AM
If I lived in zone 7 I don't think I would even bother with bananas. Just a drop in photoperiod makes many look bad.
siege2050
12-21-2015, 03:46 PM
They are quite capable of living here and growing robustly depending on variety. Not everyone grows them for fruit, some of us grow them for their ornamental value and uncommonness, I have quite a few seeded fruit species that stay out year round and I get 20 foot tall plants by fall, and bananas occasionally on my edible types. A large percentage of us on Bananas.org do not live in year round warm places, its part of the fun. If they were common here I probably would have never bothered as all my plants are unusual or uncommon for this area, I am not into petunias, or marigolds, because everyone here has those. People stop and knock on my door asking for a start of this and that every summer, or ask me questions about my plants. Its the same for palms, here they are a rarity and get a lot of looks, It is a form of art in a way, in California they are considered weeds. I was quite impressed when I saw my first hardy palms, and basjoo growing in zone 6 north of here, and a hardy citrus tree as well.
Botanical_Bryce
12-21-2015, 10:10 PM
We are not warm year round besides this year. Gets in the 20s and banana plants turn to mush. We cut them back and the come back from corms. I want to replace my bananas with fruiting ones.
siege2050
12-21-2015, 10:21 PM
Haha, yep. It has been in 50/60's the last week or so here, very unusual. Veinte cohol might do well there, but it is pretty sensitive to cold. I am not sure why but it will grow great indoors, and then just collapse. There is another short cycle banana called Patupi? I think, it might be something to try also, fruits quickly. I believe PR-Giants has it for sale occasionally.
Mark Dragt
12-22-2015, 01:36 AM
I am growing both the Veinte Cohol, and the Patupi. Both are short cycles. The Patupi is more cold hardy. Next year I am going to add another short cycle, Tigua. I think I will also try a SH 3640. I like growing bananas for the challenge. Challenge of growing a tropical plant that does not belong here. When you take good care of your plants they reward you with beauty, and rapid growth. Maybe someday even bananas. It's a passion that I want to share with others.
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Botanical_Bryce
12-22-2015, 01:04 PM
Will any of you guys sell or trade veinte cohols. Lady told me she had them then 7 days later she won't return my messages so I can get them. I truly want to get them in the ground asap. I am growing things for my health and I am sharing with sick and disabled. I have shared at least $2000 worth this past year.
Mark Dragt
12-22-2015, 08:19 PM
I only have the one plant. I will probably have pups next year, but that will not do you any good now.send a private message to PR-Giants. Keith is a great guy that has loads of plants. He doesn't always respond right away, so keep bugging him. He sends the biggest corms you will ever see.
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Botanical_Bryce
12-22-2015, 08:48 PM
Patupi sounds awesome also.
siege2050
12-23-2015, 01:15 AM
The one I have indoors is a backup for the tall one under my house because I have a suspicion that its gonna croak under there, they are not real prolific puppers for me, and I need to get this one a few feet high by spring to have any success. I am going to try to get one to fruit one more time before completely giving up. I talk bad about it, but its because it frustrates me with its crankiness lol. I just checked Florida Hills and Wellspring gardens and they are both out unfortunately. I may have to try Patupi myself next year.
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