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A freind pointed me to this website a few days ago and I have to say... I LOVE IT!! Im 26m living in Salt Lake City (zone 6), and moving to Las Vegas in a month or so. I've been growing bananas since I was in junior high. Growing bananas in Utah has been fun with the low humidity, hot hot summers and cold winters. Anyways, here are some photos of my banana past...
My first banana plant I got to flower (velutina)  Looking into my banana-filled greenhouse. Dwarf cavendish and papaya  I needed a larger greenhouse! Dwarf orinoco on left and Red Iholene on right. Dwarf Orinoco flowered a week before the first frost   Musa basjoo doing very well after being covered in snow all winter...  
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Thanks! Here's my banana collection today. I have Ensete glaucum, Ensete ventricosum, Musella lasiocarpa, Musa velutina, Musa ornata, Musa violacea, Musa sikkimensis, Daj giant, Musa basjoo, and Musa zebrina. Pretty much all grown from seeds.
 Basjoo and zebrina 
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Awesome collection you have there! Hope you have room!!
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 Welcome!!  Welcome!! You have done great~!!  Do you heat that green house?  How did you germinate the seeds? How did you over winter your basjoo? Enquiring mind wants to know!!  Thanks in advance! Lynn
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The greenhouse was heated with a 20,000 BTU natural gas heater. To germinate the seeds, I used the regular germination flats with the humidome. I used black magic germination mix and used germination heat mats (on 24/7). I had a ton of Ensete sprouts within 2-3 weeks and musa sprouts in 1-2 months. To overwinter the basjoo, I wrapped the stalks in plastic, placed a wire cage around the stalks and filled it up with leaves. Then placed a large tarp over the whole thing to keep it dry. The stalks survived, but the offshoots easily outgrew the larger stalks. The plant died the next winter from rot.
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Velutina,
Welcome aboard!!! What a great job you have done. How did you learn about all this without ever hearing of banana.org!?!?! Man, I found this place after I had basjoo and velutina and thought that was about all I could have around here. You have done a wonderful job and looks like you could give ALOT of us some advice and you are a very accomplished banana man!!! Please make yourself at home and be sure to give us your two cents on anything you feel would help. If there is anything you have questions about or need anything, let out a "shout" as there are some pretty awesome folks here as well....
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Thank you Randy! Bananas.org, where have you been all my life?? lol I have searched many many times for a website like this, but never found anything even close to this website! I learned how to grow bananas by searching the archives at the library at the university I was attending. The main books I read were those written for commercial banana farmers which were hundreds of pages of banana insanity! I majored in biology, which I give a lot of credit to my early interest in banana plants.
Thanks everyone for the warm welcome... I think I found my new home page 
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Is that a cute little Papaya tree I spot growing in the door of your greenhouse? Congrats on getting one to grow in Utah!
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welcome to the org! love the nanas sticking out the gh. thats great. you have done a wonderful job of nana growing.
    
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Great pics.
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I was glad to hear that you will be moving to Vegas. I am going to be moving there in about a month or so. You, Damaclese and I will have to get together to figure out how we can grow bananas in the desert!
I am new to growing bananas, but undaunted by the challenges we face there. There has to be a way. See you soon and welcome to the club!
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Scot, I lived there last year for a bit and I have to say... gardening had never been so difficult!!! It took me over an hour to dig a hole for a small palm. The soil is super hard and rocky!! We'll find a way though! Do I see the start of the world-famous Banana Association of Las Vegas?? lol, perhaps
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Adam- With all the help you've given me I'm glad I could at least direct you to this cool site.
Adam (Velutina) got me facinated with Utah banana growing. I got my first plants from him a few weeks ago and now I have planted around 20 banana trees in my little 1/4 acre lot. |
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Adam, We need to start our LV Banana Club for sure. I think of us, (you too Pauly), as pioneers in arid Banana development. Can you see us producing some hybrids that actually thrive in the desert? What a great opportunity to further the range of bananas. It could happen....couldn't it???
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I have an ice cream also!
I have not protected since first putting in the ground in early April spring weather, when the weather man said we might have frost! And its still doing well here in Ohio.
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ROFL!!! I DO think you need a bigger GH!!!
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