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tetleytuna
09-25-2008, 09:45 PM
Just found this site and this is the first place I have visited. I currently have three bananas One unkown that was given as a gift a couple of years ago. Poor thing grows too tall to overwinter in the house so I have to chop it off every year. It has great growth the next spring and summer though. I have a sad looking basjoo that I rescued from Home Depot this summer that is also putting on some growth and is still small enough to overwinter in the house this year and the newest is a cute little thing called little prince. The greenhouse that I purchased it from said it would fruit but after doing some research it looks like this is a variety that does not. Oh well, it is part of the family now and will have a good home.

Any suggestions on the best way to take care of these guys? Also, does anyone have suggestions for plants that would be happy to spend their lives in large pots and still maybe --- hopefully --- someday -- give me fruit? I live in zone 5b or 6 depending on who you ask.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Ann B.

chong
09-26-2008, 01:05 AM
Welcome Ann!

You'll really like the folks here. Please post some photos of your plants, so the rest of us can admire them. I for one, am curious as to what your bigger plants are.

As to pointers, there are lots!!! You can start by doing a search of threads on "overwintering", to prepare for that coming season.

Warm regards,

Chong

mskitty38583
09-26-2008, 03:07 AM
welcome to the org, ann. :lurk:

Chironex
09-26-2008, 06:08 PM
Hi Ann, just hang in there and the people here will help you get your banana back growing strong. So much good information here for all levels of expertise. Welcome to Bananas!

D_&_T
09-26-2008, 08:36 PM
Welcome to the Org. !!

magicgreen
09-26-2008, 08:49 PM
Welcome Ann!!!:woohoonaner:
I think lil' prince is cute too!!:waving:
Just keep reading about bananas on this site, and you'll be just fine!:02:

tetleytuna
09-26-2008, 08:55 PM
Thank you for replying to my post. I am going to look around a bit and see what I can find out. Will have to take some pics.

Good news about big banana! My employer is going to allow me to overwinter it in the office. I have it potted in a new pot (melted a hole in the last one while trying to keep it warm in an unexpected cool spell this spring) Hope to have it moved sometime this week. It will be nice to have this winter. We usually freeze solid around here for a month or two. Pretty to look at not so much to live with. Anyway, it will be fun to walk in from a 3 inch thick sheet of ice in the parking lot to a large banana tree by the desk.

Bob
09-27-2008, 07:00 AM
Welcome. Be careful of this place Ann, I started here less than a month ago with 4 bananas 3 varieties.Now I have 12 plants 8 varieties and several on the way. Just got a bigger Metal Halide system I'm installing on my front porch and have been tilling and amending large portions of my back yard for next years"plantation". As far as something that might give fruit in a pot The "dwarf Cavendish" would probably be a good bet I've also read "Dwarf Namwah" would be a good choice for this. Good luck, Bob

tetleytuna
10-06-2008, 07:39 PM
Moved the bananas to work. Good news and bad. Had to chop off the big mystery banana after all because it would not fit in the truck. Got the basjoo pot all the way to work intact and then dropped the pot trying to carry it in and smacked the top into the brick wall breaking the basjoo too. The good news is that both pots are now sitting in front of a nice sunny window and big banana has grown a foot since yesterday. I think a new leaf was coming in and the bottom step part of the leaf survived.

harveyc
10-07-2008, 11:05 PM
Belated welcome, Ann!

Looks like you've got plenty of other advice above. The only other thing I might add is that you stop by and visit University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry (http://www.centerforagroforestry.org/events/chestnut/) on October 18th since it's right there in your city. I know most of the folks involved in the project. :)

Harvey

Kylie2x
10-08-2008, 03:15 PM
Hey!! A Big ole Welcome to ya... Sorry to be so late...
Sounds like the Banana moving Adventure was something to se:waving:e..lmao.. Where is the Video when ya need it...haha.. I look forward to seeing you around...
Kylie

lorax
10-08-2008, 04:56 PM
Welcome aboard (belatedly)!

tetleytuna
10-15-2008, 09:16 PM
After much teasing from co-workers ("where is the tropical paradise you promised" and "what the he** are those ugly green things?" ) Both Pots have new large leaves coming in. And the bitty banana has joined the other two. Looks like mom, pop and baby sitting in the window.

Tog Tan
10-16-2008, 05:06 AM
Welcome Ann! Lots of stuff to learn from here.....

damaclese
10-16-2008, 07:44 AM
welcome Ann from a fellow Kansas/Missourian how is Columbia thees days i do so mis my Ozarkean home land LOL Christmas is just not the same for me here in the land of Sun and Sand LOL good Luck with your Bananas ask any thing and some one here will probably know the answer!