Bananas to you, from JERICO!
Hey Everyone!!!
Mediahound gave us a big-o welcome, and we're here to say thanks! We are from Alabama, and we have no bananas today. BUT, we do have two banana's blooming. One looks rather sad, but the other holds potential. We will send pictures. Don't know what kind, but they are rather huge. Then we ordered another 13 different varieties. We don't have the entire list, but we do have: Cavendish, Williams, Ice Cream, Raja Puri, Gran Nain, Thousand Finger, Mus Double Mahoi. Mekong Giant, Musa Basjoo, Musa Ensete Snow Banana, Musa Viente Cohol, Musa Saba, FHIA-3 Sweetheart, and then we have a bunch of the kind that is blooming. We are looking for any information we can get our hands on to determine what we need to do. We've only done a quick scan of the forum so far. We'll have to go back and do a whole lotta reading. Then maybe we can really dig in here. |
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Hello, Welcome & Happy Harvesting.. :^)
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We know right where your town is. We delivered a load there a few years ago, just South of the Pilot. We just closed our trucking company two weeks ago.
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Welcome to Bananas and Zone Pushing!
That's an ambitious list but not impossible. Y'all are near Tuskegee right? It does get a bit cold there. Definitely going to need Winter protection. Good for you there is a ton of information here on the forum. Just run some searches, you'll see. Hope you can come down to our Banana get together. Bring friends! |
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Darkman,
We are actually close to Tuscaloosa, about 40 miles maybe. We will definitely consider your get together. |
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Darkman,
We are actually close to Tuscaloosa, about 40 miles maybe. We will definitely consider your get together. |
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Welcome from another in the fine state of Alabama and also Terminal Mgr. for trucking company. Welcome and happy growing. Coosada is just outside of Prattville.
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Rebel,
Sure are glad we closed our operation down. We had enough of things the way they have gotten. We have been out there for far too many years. Trucking sure takes its toll on a body. Just 2 weeks off, and we are feeling much better. Now it is time for us to enjoy life. Working with plants and the soil are just what the good Lord has ordered for us. Thankfully we were able to drive home, park the truck in the yard, get out, and we are still able to enjoy life. Believe us, we ain't looking back! |
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Good for you. I should have told you I'm 65 and only work two days a week now. Was Transportation Mgr. for a Hon Office Furniture plant in Florence, Al. for years. Now just taking it easy mostly and enjoying life. Take care and do understand the toll the Gov. and the pressure of trucking has on the body.
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Welcome! Always happy to see more zone pushers :)
Are your blooming ones in pots or greenhouses? With fall approaching and banana fruit ripening times rather long and slow, I'd highly recommend you get them safe before they fail. |
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Illia,
Our blooming bananas are in thee ground. We can't tell you what kind of bananas are that is blooming, but the trunk (pseudostem) is huge. This is the second year they have been in the ground. The first one bloomed on a smaller plant that looked like it was almost gone. We didn't expect those bananas would make it. However, the one in bloom now, it is way to huge to move inside. If the bananas make good, if not maybe we can learn some kind of tricks to help us out for the next bloom. I'll try to get pictures of it later today or tomorrow morning. But thanks again to you (and everyone else) for the gran nain welcome! :waving: |
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If you feel determined and crazy enough, you could try building a quick little temporary greenhouse over it for the winter so you can possibly get fruit. Get a wood frame going on the bottom, perhaps some PVC hoops, some clear plastic over top, and for extra insulation, some people even use a second layer of plastic or a good layer of bubble wrap. Also christmas lights are a good heat emitter, and a tank such as an aquarium of water helps soak heat by day and release it by night.
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Illia, we appreciate that info! We'll have to try it on the plant that is flowering.
We are going to watch the progress to see where the bananas get to before the temperature starts to cool, then we'll proceed from there. When we purchased our other plants (those listed below in signature), they showed that they were more cold tolerant than some other varieties (except the Thousand Finger). So if they told the truth, most of them will at least survive our winter. We do intend to offer them as much protection as possible though. Always feel your advise is welcome here, we want to do what is right for the plants we have. |
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We ran the first company for 9 years, then closed that one & started another to try to be more in compliance with CSA. We ran that one for 4 years. Just thank God we are out of that now. We actually closed it in July 16th, almost a month now. Time has passed rather quickly, and I sure would not want to go back to it! Now we have got so much to get caught up on around here. We want to open a nursery, my heart lies in tropical type plants. We have quite a large collection of our stock plants. Next comes: making all the baby plants for market. We are also getting ready to start offering organic fertilizer. Right now we are still in the beginning stages. We are waiting for guaranteed analysis from the State Lab. (It should be back around the week-end.) Then we'll begin our packaging system. |
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Thousand Fingers is extremely cold tolerant, the issue is in the fruit. The plant loves lots of heat, but more importantly, the many many fruits take a long, long time to develop. We're talking much over 8 months, possibly over a year. The main hardiness of the plant though is the corm, so, you cannot hope that the p-stem and fruit are hardy. ;)
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Wow! There is so much to learn!
That is why we joined here. This place is bountiful with information. After making the investment if the plants, and the time to get them this far; we want to do everything we can to protect them. Our landscape will look quite strange with all the plastic wrapped trees we'll have! |
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Strange? Yeah I guess so! This was the Winter protection for the Winter of 10/11 And after unwrapping and growing a little on June 2 |
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Sorry I disappeared, but I went to get some pictures to brag about my babies! :goteam:
[IMG][/IMG]Proud Mama to Flowering Banana - 1st View [IMG][/IMG]Proud Mama to Flowering Banana - 2nd View [IMG][/IMG]Proud Mama to Flowering - 3rd View with Size 9 Wmoen's Shoe [IMG][/IMG]Proud Mama of Flowering Banana - 4th View [IMG][/IMG]Sisters to Flowering Now [IMG][/IMG]Variety of Other Bananas - 1st View [IMG][/IMG]Variety of Other Bananas - 2nd View [IMG][/IMG]Supposed to be Cavendish [IMG][/IMG]Supposed to be Ice Cream [IMG][/IMG]Supposed to be Williams Phew! That was a job just to get these here. :03: And there are more, but enough is enough! Dang it! I left off the two most important ones, the Flowering Banana [IMG][/IMG]Flowering Banana - 1st view [IMG][/IMG]Flowering Banana - 2nd View |
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