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Stonecutter
05-01-2016, 08:39 PM
I have this one blooming but I don't remember which type it is.http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59702 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59701&limit=recent)


http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59700 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59699&limit=recent)


http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59701 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59700&limit=recent)

Tytaylor77
05-01-2016, 09:20 PM
Could it be the Texas Star? If so would love to hear how it has done. How long from planting till bloom? Etc. Great time of year for a bloom. Congrats:goteam:

Stonecutter
05-02-2016, 06:21 PM
Could it be the Texas Star? If so would love to hear how it has done. How long from planting till bloom? Etc. Great time of year for a bloom. Congrats:goteam:

Hi Tytaylor77!! Thank you!!

That could be a Texas Star. I know I bought one and kept pups. I actually kept a few pups of each type of my outside banana plants over winter indoors in pots in 2014 then put them in the ground in March last year. So that one would be about 2 years old; 1 year in a pot and one year in the ground.

During the growing season they get composted cow manure about once every 5 or 6 weeks worked in the ground, but in between those times they get a slow release all purpose fert of 14-14-14. Last year midsummer they got a dose of potassium sulfate just once.
They get watered everyday when it's not raining.

But that's just how it worked for me under my conditions, I'm not an expert.

Stonecutter
05-09-2016, 05:20 PM
It's showing some flowers now.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59733 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59707&ppuser=23136)


http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59735 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59734&ppuser=23136)


http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59734 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59733&ppuser=23136)

Sunshine
05-09-2016, 08:44 PM
Exciting ... can't wait to get mine there.

JP
05-10-2016, 12:55 PM
Congrats!

Stonecutter
05-11-2016, 01:39 PM
Thank you everybody for the replies and all the thanks!!! :)