The amazing musa basjoo...

lava lounge · 05-23-2010, 07:09 PM

I cant believe after a tough winter and unfortuntly my musa's being to wet I lost all of them, well I thought. I pulled them put one in the composter and the other two I was going to put them there to but waited and when I went to throw them in a week later I found a pup trying to grow, cant believe in such a rotted plant this would survive. Check it out , cute lil bugger huh!!!

willy1der · 05-23-2010, 09:28 PM

Did you have any sort of protection over winter on them!!!!I would be happy too!!!

LilRaverBoi · 05-23-2010, 10:31 PM

Bananas are incredibly hardy and are will constantly surprise you with their virulence (LOL not sure if I can really use that term to describe plants...maybe I should have used 'determination to survive/thrive' instead). My first bananas came from a compost heap where they were chopped up/thrown after they were assumed dead.

lava lounge · 05-24-2010, 01:19 PM

I did have my bananas covered and protected but when I took all the covering away they looked aweful this spring. I cut them back a few times tiill they were even with the ground and they still were rotting more so I thought they are dead for sure. I ordered a few more fom sandy here on bananas.org and counted it as a learning expirence but I sure did learn they are tough as hell and maybe to never count them out until the very last rotted piece compost itself. My others have never came back though so Im probably lucky with this little guy. I am planting this one in the front of my house in a protected area that get lots of sun and I can water easily and I may give him another try as an expirement to see if in that location I could have them survive our winter.

saltydad · 05-24-2010, 04:54 PM

Basjoo are indeed tough guys. All the best with your survivor!

JuniPerez · 05-25-2010, 10:08 AM

That looks just like my sikkimensis rotted corm. It gives me a lot of hopes now that you've posted that... not quite as hardy as the mighty basjoo, but still gives me hope. It rotted once we got warmer and wetter... and I can't find anyone selling large corms. = /

Congratz...

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