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I am new in growing bananas, I have only 2 plants...
... and trying to start from seeds:
I have read the "Banana Seed Germination" threads, that helped me a lot! So thanks for this ! Thanks to bananarama2 , barnetmill , Blake09 , caliboy1994 , Chance1945 , Dalmatiansoap , Darkman , harveyc , HoaNui , island cassie , justjoan , MediaHound , momoese , oakshadows , Olafhenny , palmtree , paulorph , Richard , saltydad , Scuba_Dave , stumpy4700 , sunfish , TRAY , venturabananas , willy1der , Worm_Farmer , Yug, Kelso !
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02-27-2012, 05:09 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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Welcome, I hope you have better luck with your seeds than I do. I planted some back in Aug. and I'm still waiting. I buy pups now instead. Instant gratification.
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the seeds are on "alternate" temperature for 2 weeks now, a few have lost the "micropylar plug", i hope it's a good sign, time will tell!
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Welcome Here H2O Enjoy the site. I agree about starting from pups. Seeds will take forever from what I have read. But nice thing is that pups come up here or you could put a request in the buy/sell area here. Everyone here is great and very knowledgeable. But if you have the seed, plant them and see what happens. I am just too impatient to wait for them to grow
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Welcome H20
I am also new to this forum and have already learned quite a bit. France did control the area that I live in from 1719-1722 and it is interesting to have someone from France on this forum. France is famous for pears, grapes, apples and probably many other things I know little about. Perhaps you can share some experiences that you might have with other fruits and plants from your homeland. |
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But if you need help in these plants , let me know, i will try to find the information for you. Here are some seeds / plants already done : From seed:
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It is for the Paw Paw that I am currently looking for advice. They do apparently grow wild in some areas nearby to me. What I have are three plants that a nursery (Just Fruits and Exotics) grew from seeds and another from the Escambia Forest that I understand was grown from a cutting by a local nursery. Anyway the instructions provided said to put the paw paws in shade while they were young. I placed them in a drained portion of a forested creek bottom. I suspect the soil is acid. I am planning to cut down the shading trees and maybe fertilize and otherwise amend the soil. What do you or anyone else here use to amend the soil about paw paws? Thanks |
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Welcome H2O, from Nashville, Tennessee USA....Good luck with your seeds.
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Welcome from NYC! Im really bad at starting most plants from seed so I hope you have more luck than I do. I hear that Musa Velutina is one of the easiest bananas to start from seed so you might want to try them!
Im also a bit impatient when it comes to growing things from seed and banana plants are very slow to start from seed. If you can find pups, definitely try those. You will be more confident that you were given the correct species (sometimes seeds are not ID'ed correctly) and you will get tall plants much faster. I got a Musa saba as a small pup in October 2010 and now just 1.5 years later it is 9 feet tall and grows very fast during hot weather! Good luck!
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