mand

Well, I browsed until the forum told me to join or go away. So hello!

I've browsed long enough to get envious of people with bay windows, and basements, and hot climates, and budgerigars.

I have no banana plant. Yet. I'm thinking the smallest pos, either that or something very hardy *and* smallish. I'm in the UK and without much space! did you guess?

Almost all my gardening is indoors because poor and unpredictable health has made real gardening difficult; in the next year or so I hope to achieve raised beds and other design things to change that. For the time being, I can't be reliable about wrapping up a plant for the winter and suchlike. Almost all my houseplants are desert-lovers, which I got into originally because they prefer neglect and sometimes I have no choice about it. (Particularly in love with the Sedum family, Crassula falcata and others, and lately Euphorbia bupleurifolia x suzannae.) There are rather too many of them in the house...

Yet I have a yen for a banana plant. Madness? I also never spend more than £3 on anything but don't give up on me. I have done the impossible several times now; I was told it was impossible to get a "black" Aeonium Schwartzkopf to stay black in this country on a windowsill (for lack of light) but mine are 100% black in summer. Anyway, every so often I get googling the how-to of bananas, and with me that kind of fantasy practising always turns into a real attempt sooner or later. Is there anything else as small as a super dwarf Cavendish? Even the non-super dwarf is too big, unless I really become banana-obsessive.

In summary, I haven't the space or time or money or climate to get a banana and I haven't got one. Neither am I any good at keeping up with forums. Obviously, I would never have joined this forum.

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jbyrd88888

LOL HI HelLo! From NC I'm a newbie too Check out my grow log in my signature.
You seem to be in a similar hardiness zone. I like your attitude and spending habits...lol You should stay around.
Although I received my Veinte Cohol Last I think it will fruit the same time the other ones might. Fruit takes more than a year in our zones, if my research is correct.
Better start it inside.

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sunfish

Cool Beans

Abnshrek

Hello, Welcome & Happy Growing.. :^)

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trebor

Yikes.... I had to Google budgerigars then when I saw them things I sneezed. Ill take a African Gray over them squawking things any day! No ofence meant to all you budge owners.
If you get a super dwarf Cavendish it will grow and produce fruit for you in a pot. you can move it in and out during the cold/warm months.. Good luck to ya and keep on this list .....

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mand

Thanks for the welcomes

The grow log is a good idea, J-Bert[?], a lot of dedication though!

I'm with you on the budgies, Trebor, but at least they're in the parrot family. I hadn't thought of them like that until I was researching parrots. I have an ambition one day to have a companion conure or similar. They need too much attention for me to provide at the moment (too much space as well (and too much floor-mopping)); our very loving dog goes to a loving kennels but I plan/hope to do more holidaying in the next few years. Besides, one of them would eat the other.

Don't know if I can move a large pot in and outdoors, actually, but looking at pots on wheels etc. I'd love a fork-lift! or better still, a giant roof and walls to pull over part of the garden during the cold months. Like a convertible car. Convertible garden, hm...

Thanks on here seem to work like Facebook's likes, would you say so?

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ps Is there any banana plant even smaller than a SDC?

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jbyrd88888

The grow Bags I have in my log are very light-weight. . . not hard to carry... nah I'm young, smart"ish" and fit, I have no problems quickly posting pictures here and taking care of business. I would recommend investing in a dolly/hand-truck for a pot if your older. Thanks.

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mand

I'm young"ish", smart and sometimes perfectly fit, but problems fluctuate. Mainly the hands won't grip even when back, knees, shoulders etc are all happy! Yep, I'm looking at things with wheels. Methinx it will have to be next year though. First I'm saving up for (or hopefully freecycling) some big pots and hunting for the wheelbarrow under the Heap of Stuff. Access to things in the garage is a new experience.

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sunfish

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lmswayne

Welcome from Seattle good luck. You will find growing bananas is great fun.

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Welcome from Seattle good luck. You will find growing bananas is great fun.

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my computer is at it again doubling every thing I think I am hallucinating

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trebor

Pots on wheels is good that way you can roll them around. Ya start with one then go through a winter and the following winter your HOOKED then ya might need that fork lift you spoke of.
Oh No FaCeBoOk comparison . I guess the thanks are similar, Yes ... FB for me is a mess because I really only have it to watch my children I dont even respond to people who want to be my friend on there.. It kinda bugs me! Besides all they seem to do is want more info about "ME" or "YOU"
Any wayz happy growing ! Eat what you grow! That makes you a cool dude or Dudette

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AlastairCulham

Come and visit the Reading University bananas on one of our open days next year - we have Musa dasycarpa and Musa Dwarf Cavendish in the greenhouse and Musa basjoo outside.

mand

Shocked at myself , just found this stuck in Preview mode meaning I dropped you for three days. How rude! as Jar-Jar Binks would say.

Musa truly tiny - thanks, Sunfish / Tony. I'll make that one my [first] ambition. Three feet sounds just about manageable here.
And thanks for pointing me to the wiki, I'd forgotten that was there! Well, you sort of pointed me. It turned up when I googled the name.

(Since Monday I've found out about Little Prince too which sounds even better. Ooh, decisions.)

lmswayne, let's see if you are hal

lucinating or not. How many hands...?

And Trebor, I'm with you, I hate FB but wouldn't know what my eldest was doing each week/month without it. It's also the only way of staying in touch with certain relatives. But I wouldn't trust it with my shoe size. ... Getting hooked on growing like you say is the reason I haven't room for any new plants though...

And Alastair, I have a cousin in that direction along the M4 so I may even turn up en route one day. Looks a lovely garden. I googled a plan and description of it. Found a photo of you too!

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lmswayne

No Dave not Hal---- Bananas--- Hi I'm Linda welcome. I find you Kids great fun! And smart.

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mand
If I am what I eat it makes me a large mixed fruit salad with bananas from store because when I bought my banana plants I was clues and had not found this site yet. I joined this year when I got my first bananas after eight years. Then I find out there not the kind I can eat! now I cant find pups or the thread for them so once again clues. I will just keep hunting. I may find it by spring

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mand

Well, I'm definitely bananas (shop-bought so far) and so is my eldest son; sometimes I'm just crackers though, and my youngest is nuts. My mum was a 100% fruit cake.

Good luck with your info-hunt. I need to ask more about edible/ornamental, too.

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lmswayne

Mand
have ornamental I will send you a pup in spring when they stick there little heads up. Can I ship to the UK? I guess I will have lots of time to find out.
Linda

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