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Old 02-09-2014, 06:59 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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Hello everyone! I live in Canada where temperatures have been about -30 C for the last month! So my interest is growing bananas indoors in containers. Truthfully I don't think I've ever seen a banana plant in real life,but they look so beautiful in pictures that I decided to grow some from seed this winter. I have a passion for growing tropical fruit. I currently have a few dozen passiflora seedlings started from seed as well as pomegranate and grapefruit seedlings and a few pineapple tops!! None of my banana seeds have germinated yet but I know patience is required..thanks for all the great info!
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Old 02-09-2014, 07:08 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Have no fear! I have a customer who is growing bananas indoors in Nome, Alaska!
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Awesome...it can be done!
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Hello, Welcome & Happy Growing.. :^)
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We grow/store them indoors for the winter,

What kind of Bananas will you be growing. Basjoos are more hardy than Ensetes. We drain Ensetes before storage indoors.

Protecting Bananas for Winter - Give them a Parka!

That would be a little extreme for the UK Basjoos but not America.

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Welcome aboard,
have fun and learn about bananas.
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The first seeds I bought were musa velutina, and cocchinea..but I think I'm gonna buy some more seeds. I'll have to check out the basjoos I'd never heard of those!
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Also try ..

Musa sikkimensis


Description

The plant is robust and about 4 m tall with a yellowish-green foliage and reddish tinged pseudostem. The sheath is smudged with blackish-brown and is without wax when mature, unlike Musa nagensium which has thick wax deposits in the pseudostem sheaths.

The bases of the lamina bear a red-purple colour when young, which gradually fades, latest on the midrib. The inflorescence far outshoots the pseudostem, producing an oblique fruit bunch. The fruits are described as lax, arising from large, brown callosities on axis, angled at maturity. The pulp is scanty, dirty white to pale brownish-pink. Flowering and fruiting takes place from October to April.

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I grew one but then lost it..I hope my three seeds germinate I am on with at the moment.

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I'm in Montreal and its been really cold this winter, I started to germinate a banana sees last month and yesterday after 5 weeks my first sprout appeared. So good luck and patience.
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I love Montreal! Lived there for 4 years, in Ontario now. Just wondering what kind of bananas you germinated? Did you use a heat pad? Did you alternate between hot and cooler temperatures?
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Hello everyone! I live in Canada where temperatures have been about -30 C for the last month! So my interest is growing bananas indoors in containers. Truthfully I don't think I've ever seen a banana plant in real life,but they look so beautiful in pictures that I decided to grow some from seed this winter. I have a passion for growing tropical fruit. I currently have a few dozen passiflora seedlings started from seed as well as pomegranate and grapefruit seedlings and a few pineapple tops!! None of my banana seeds have germinated yet but I know patience is required..thanks for all the great info!
Welcome from one Canadian to another! (I too have a passion for tropical and grow a lot of "unusuals")

What part of the "Great White North" do you hail from?
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Hi pmurphy! I live in Ontario on the shores of Georgian Bay..definitely the great white north this year..so much snow!! What kind if bananas are you growing? What other "unusuals" have you tried?
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I sent you a PM with some info.
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