hightider

I live on a barier island off the coast of N C caled Emerald Isle,I have five acres on the sound side of the island,my favorite pasttimes are,gardening and fishing I have a comercial fishing licene and set nets frab pots ,troll for shrimp,and do a lot of deep sea fishing as we can catch the realy big ones marlin up to 1200 lbs,My gardening intrest is all over the spectrum,agaves,tropicals,perrenials of all types,bushes of all types ,bulbs colocasia,hibiscus,palm trees,and now banana ,I started out last year with ont that i dont no the name it has varigation on the underside of the leaf and green on top growed to five ft with an 8 inch diam. trunk and vert tropical,wintered it over after first frost by cutting it down to three ft and put a ten inch piece of duct heating pipe over it ,it came back beautiful,now 7 ft anf a six ft spread,so excited bought 4 diverent babies whic just arrived so ive potted them up and will winter them over in my sun room,kepping the heat above fifty degrees,hope thst right,as you can tell i dont no much about nana,LOL hightider

CValentine

Hi Hightider!!

Take a look around the Org!

There are great people & plenty of info here to get you up to speed on the baby bananas in your sunroom!

Pics PLEASE!! Post often & GREETINGS from Central Texas, Zone 8a! ~Cheryl

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Abnshrek

Welcome.. & enjoy :^)

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stumpy4700

Welcome to the Org. You will find many anwsers here. There are great people here .

mike

Welcome Hightider

cherokee_greg

welcome from California

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Eric

Welcome aboard, Hightider ! Wow! Somewhere between trolling for shrimp, marlin, sounds, & islands, I'll try to focus on nanners... Sounds like a SUPER way to LIVE !!!!!!
You can take pics of your 1st nanner & start a thread in the Banana ID section to find out which cultivar it is. Sounds like a really stout & healthy plant! The sun room sounds great & Definitely keep over 50. I keep mine at around 70 (F) every winter & they're doing super!
It's a very friendly & info-packed forum so ya should learn a lot, I Sure have! If ya have any questions about using the forum, just ask.
Have Fun!

Youngbb

Welcome to a great group of banana lovers. My DH also is a Captain and has his own boat, fishes for cobia, tripple tail, scamp (My Favorite), grouper, snapper, triggers, tuna, etc but his favorite is wahoo. I scuba dive. I also work so when I am off I really like to garden.
Welcome aboard!

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LilRaverBoi

Welcome to the forum! I hope you learn a lot here and have some great times. Like Eric said, post pics in a new thread on the 'Banana ID' forum and the experts will likely give you a good idea of what your plant is.

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Ueberwinden

Welcome Hightider,

Are you in the Outer banks region of the great state of NC? I just love that area. When ever we are driving to Myrtle Beach we usually come back through the Outer Banks and revisit Va Beach and Norfolk ( I was stationed there for three years) and make our way back to the Bluegrass.

Michael

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Bananaman88

Welcome to the group!

hightider

Michael just got back from Cheroke went for 4 days to look at the changing colurs,we live at Emerald Isle n c have four acres on the sound side we are about 150 miles from Myrtle Beach,however we have a place on the ocean there so we go there quite a bit.thanks for the welcome Hightider

hightider

Thanks for the welcome.of all the fish in the see Wahoo is in my opion the best tasting to,hightider

hightider

Thanks Cheryl,your family picture looks great,had five children 13 gran and three great gran love Groucho quote,he also said when asked how he stayed married to the same woman for 62 years( thats how long ive beem maried) he said my wife lived on the East Coast and I live on the West coast.LOLHightider

hightider

Thanks Eric for the info,dont no how to post pictures I have quite a few I would love to share,being in my eighties I love to do it all an can honestly say ive given it a good shot,now its nana time and since i have a lot of tropicals I dont no why I am so late starting with nanas,but shure aim to do my best,thanks again Hightider

Bob

Welcome Hightider, sorry I missed your introduction when you posted it. I'll have to get down somewhere where there's wahoo someday I guess. Till then I'll have to suffer with stripers There are other members here from your area that I'm sure will welcome you when they see this. One is also a commercial ....check that... make it a Licensed Captain(not sure exactly) I believe based in Oregon inlet.

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palmtree

This is a really nice forum that I have just started posting in recently. Bananas in general are beautiful plants and thank goodness for Cold hardy bananas. Im trying a Musa basjoo again this spring. Cold hardy palms are also a cool thing to try and with 5 acres you can experiment with tons of tropical looking thinks (and you will probably succed since you live so near to the coast. Evergreen magnolias are becoming really common by me and I think they are really tropical looking trees. I used to call them "Artichoke trees" because of their seed pods!

If I had 5 acres of land I would definately have an elaborate tropical pond with an elevated large wooden bridge running across it, and of course cannas and thalias as well as a plant called Dinosaur food-I can see why because they are huge and cold tolerant too. Dont forget the bamboo and bananas (you can even plant some non-hadry fruiting bananas and cut the leaves off and dig them up before a frost). As you can see Ive given this some thinking in the past

WELCOME!

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Eric

Hi Hightider . Just one thing. Be careful to keep the nanas away from the shore. Sea salt can really hurt them. BTW, I was late starting with nanas too. Just wanted Timber bamboo & it wasn't till 2 years later that I decided to try out banana plants. Glad I did! Making albums & posting pictures is just a little difficult, first time ya try. The second time is a Lot easier! My dad helped me write a guide to help new members out. Just click on this link:
Creating Albums & Posting Photos
See ya in the threads! Good Luck!