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Hello! I live in the US, southern New Mexico, just outside of a little town called Mayhill. It's high up in the mountains, where the difference between USDA Zones 6 and 7 depends entirely on what the weather decides to do in a given year. As such, naturally, my banana experiments have been container-bound, but still. I don't remember when I started trying to grow bananas from seed, but I do know my first experiment was with Musa sikkimensis; naturally, this got me pretty discouraged pretty quickly. This year however, in addition to trying new varieties (Ensete glaucum, Ensete ventricosum, Ensete lasiocarpum / Musella lasiocarpa), I also tried a few new techniques, including thus far my most successful method, the "Gladware container" method. Most of the seedlings ended up dying when I had to travel for 10 days (being out in the mountains, there aren't very many people I can ask to water my plants while I'm gone), but a few have survived and the initial success rate has me more confident in trying my hand with these same varieties and more.

All that having been said, hello!

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Welcome aboard,
pull up a chair and have some fun learning.

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Welcome to the Jungle..:woohoonaner:

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Welcome to the board.

Yeah, you live in an odd area. The first time I went through Cloudcroft, I was amazed to see Douglas firs and a ski area. Within ten minutes, I was down into Alamagordo. I'm assuming you're in a similar situation, although I'm not familiar with Mayhill.

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Mayhill's on the opposite side of Cloudcroft from Alamogordo, about the same distance away; yeah, we're surrounded by the Lincoln National Forest: Douglas firs, ponderosa pines, and alligator junipers everywhere. We don't have quite the same microclimate as Cloudcroft itself, but it's pretty similar.

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Ah, I know exactly where you are now. I came through there on my way from Artesia to LC. I remember all the junipers set against the yellow grass. Nice area.

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The grass actually does turn green for about four months! Assuming we've had enough rain during the monsoons in a given year. :P Actually, it's really lovely when the fields down in James Canyon (the valley the highway runs through) erupt in wildflowers. Lots of yellow and lavender blooms!

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I'll bet! I've been fortunate enough to visit every state except Hawaii, and I remember most of the places I've been just as vividly as though it were yesterday.