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05-09-2007, 09:05 AM | #1 (permalink) |
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my country is Germany and I live here in Franconia , a part of Bavaria. Since four years I got addicted to growing and collecting musaspecies. It began with seeds from a Ensete ventricosum and a little dwarf cavendish. Now I have a small nice collection of bananaplants in pots and three species in my garden. I am also interested in other exotic plants that can grow in the cold german climate, especially palms and succulents. Other hobbies are traditional archery, motorcycles and reptiles. Greetings Dombo
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05-09-2007, 09:37 AM | #2 (permalink) |
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Welcome Dombo, you will find a lot of information here and a lot of kindly members who can give you good advice.
You can grow tropicals and palms in germany as I do in Holland, even without protection. (trachycarpus/trithrinax and especially several Yuccas) Ron |
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Hello Ron,
I can grow only the hardiest palms, like Sabal minor and Trachycarpus species. It is a pity that Trithrinax is not so hardy, in strong winters we got temperatures about -10 °F and frost phases up to 3 weeks. I protect my palms and succulents in winter with plasticroofs against moisture. My Musas get a elaborate protection with heating system. Greetings Dombo
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05-09-2007, 10:42 AM | #4 (permalink) |
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Greetings Dombo, welcome!
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Hello and thank you Jarred
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Hi Dombo!
I grow Musa, Ensete, and Musella species also, especially the cold-hardy types. Nice to have more options than Musa basjoo, although haven't found one yet to rival it (maybe...maybe M. sikkimensis). Check out the species banana forum, cold-hardy bananas forum, and banana seed germination forum also. And welcome! |
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@ bigdog: I made the experience that Musa sikkimensis can not rival to Musa basjoo. Musa sp. Yangtse seems to be hardier than Musa sikkimensis. Greetings Dombo
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Tell me more about Musa sp. 'Yangtse' please! I've never heard of it. Here, M. sikkimensis seems pretty close to being on par with M. basjoo for cold-hardiness, but not quite.
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Hello Bigdog,
Musa sp. Yangtse is most likely a not clear definite Musa. This Musa was discovered in Yunnan and brought to germany from Tobias Spanner . May be that sp. Tibet is the same as sp. Yangtse. I sometimes read about sp. Tibet, but have never seen good pictures. Do you know where I can find detailed pictures from a sp. Tibet? Than I could compare it with my sp. Yangtse. Pictures of my Musa sp. Yangtse are in my Gallery. Greetings Dombo
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Just do a Google image search for "Musa Tibet", and you should find a few pics. Is Toby going to offer seeds of that one soon? I notice it has the papery "wings" at the base of the petioles, much like M. itinerans. Does it send up pups far away from the mother pseudostem? Thanks for the pics!
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There don`t exist seeds from Musa sp. Yangtse, this is the reason why this species is so rare. The flower is also unknown.
Tobias Spanner sold suckers from a rhizome that he brought to Germany. My plant hasn`t got pups yet. When my plant gets suckers, than I will complete it with photos in my Gallery. I have the guess that M. Tibet is a tissue cultured Yangtse, because the discriptions of both species are similar and M. Tibet is much more offered. And I have never found seeds from M. Tibet too.
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