OldOneEye
05-03-2019, 10:39 AM
Hi everyone,
I just bought my first banana starts from Florida Hill Nursery. They are Raja Puri and Ice Cream.
I live at 1800 ft on the Cumberland Plateau in TN. The climate here kills a lot of plants hardier than bananas. The Warm/Freeze, Warm/Freeze cycle of our winters is brutal to most tree fruits I try to grow.
I have had dozens of plants die over the winters. Pears, Cherries, Plums, Peaches die easily in their first winter. Even apples get burst bark from freezing sometimes.
I'm not quitting though, in fact I'm adding to my collection! Bananas!
What kind of reputation does Florida Hill Nursery have? I ordered elephant ears from them before and was satisfied, but I think they sent me the wrong elephant ear this time and they won't reply to my emails.
I would like to be able to grow a short season banana that I can dig up and overwinter indoors, either dormant or under grow lights and put it out in Late April/May and have ripe bananas by first frost in October.
Some more about me:
I am a bit of a fruit collector, and still collecting despite my climate(or is it myself?) killing a good third of what I plant. I've only been at it for 3 or 4 years.
I'm a fig nut. I was a member of the Figs4Fun forum before it shut down, and am a member at the new OurFigs.com forum. I have over 60 fig trees in the ground and am selecting for figs that will bear fruit in a single season after freezing to the ground and growing back from the roots.
My other tropicals that I have to take in during the winters are Dragon Fruit(too many. I need to get rid of some), Guava, Australian Finger lime, Papaya.
In ground I have Apples of all sorts, Seedless Che, Seaberries, Raspberries of all colors, Primocane Blackberries, Quince(Doing surprisingly well), Jujubes, Rabbiteye Blueberries, Muscadines(climate kills about half of varieties), LOTS of pawpaws, (That's my other obsession, Been trying for 8 years and yet to get the first fruit.), Persimmons, (Half of the Asians dead), Plums, Pears, Cherries, Apricots, Peaches, Pluerries, Pluots, (nearly all dead after 1st Winter)
I feel like I have wasted a lot of money and labor on the things that die and it does get discouraging sometimes, but maybe with the help of the people on this forum I can keep bananas alive and maybe even someday taste my own tree-ripened fruit!:03:
I just bought my first banana starts from Florida Hill Nursery. They are Raja Puri and Ice Cream.
I live at 1800 ft on the Cumberland Plateau in TN. The climate here kills a lot of plants hardier than bananas. The Warm/Freeze, Warm/Freeze cycle of our winters is brutal to most tree fruits I try to grow.
I have had dozens of plants die over the winters. Pears, Cherries, Plums, Peaches die easily in their first winter. Even apples get burst bark from freezing sometimes.
I'm not quitting though, in fact I'm adding to my collection! Bananas!
What kind of reputation does Florida Hill Nursery have? I ordered elephant ears from them before and was satisfied, but I think they sent me the wrong elephant ear this time and they won't reply to my emails.
I would like to be able to grow a short season banana that I can dig up and overwinter indoors, either dormant or under grow lights and put it out in Late April/May and have ripe bananas by first frost in October.
Some more about me:
I am a bit of a fruit collector, and still collecting despite my climate(or is it myself?) killing a good third of what I plant. I've only been at it for 3 or 4 years.
I'm a fig nut. I was a member of the Figs4Fun forum before it shut down, and am a member at the new OurFigs.com forum. I have over 60 fig trees in the ground and am selecting for figs that will bear fruit in a single season after freezing to the ground and growing back from the roots.
My other tropicals that I have to take in during the winters are Dragon Fruit(too many. I need to get rid of some), Guava, Australian Finger lime, Papaya.
In ground I have Apples of all sorts, Seedless Che, Seaberries, Raspberries of all colors, Primocane Blackberries, Quince(Doing surprisingly well), Jujubes, Rabbiteye Blueberries, Muscadines(climate kills about half of varieties), LOTS of pawpaws, (That's my other obsession, Been trying for 8 years and yet to get the first fruit.), Persimmons, (Half of the Asians dead), Plums, Pears, Cherries, Apricots, Peaches, Pluerries, Pluots, (nearly all dead after 1st Winter)
I feel like I have wasted a lot of money and labor on the things that die and it does get discouraging sometimes, but maybe with the help of the people on this forum I can keep bananas alive and maybe even someday taste my own tree-ripened fruit!:03: