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Old 04-12-2021, 09:51 AM   #1 (permalink)
 
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Hey everyone,

I've finally got bananas! I've had this mat of Dwarf Orinoco for 8 years or so and have had 2 blooms previously, but both were naked. Third time's the charm! When it eventually happened, I imagined I would get a few bananas on a single hand, but there are 2 hands of 6 so far with a third hand emerging now. So excited!


This particular plant was looking pretty sad in January as they usually do in the winter, so I chopped off the top so it could reset. A couple leaves came out and the latest one was a bit small but I thought it was just because it was getting going again. Turns out it was a flag leaf. Anyway, I never even noticed the bloom emerge because it kind of came out the side of the p-stem near the top and was hidden by a piece of stem. The first hand is actually mostly still stuck in the stem and I was wondering if I should do some delicate p-stem surgery and help release it. I've heard of people doing this before.

What do you think?

This picture is from April 9th.

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Old 04-12-2021, 10:12 AM   #2 (permalink)
 
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Here's a more recent picture, from this morning.

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Congratulations! Pretty cool!
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Congrats

That's so inspiring!

Did you do something different last year/this year?
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Old 04-12-2021, 02:32 PM   #5 (permalink)
 
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No, I didn't do anything different. I think it was just ready!

It lives in a pot that comes into my plant room for the winter and outside for the summer.
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awesome!

i dont know about the surgery but it might be good to prune it to only one hand if there are only a couple leafs

or just enjoy the show... it is interesting to see it flower

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i dont know about the surgery but it might be good to prune it to only one hand if there are only a couple leafs

or just enjoy the show... it is interesting to see it flower



So the leaves have an effect on how many bananas actually develop? I thought it purely used corm energy for that. Good to know! That will be a hard decision to make.
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So the leaves have an effect on how many bananas actually develop? I thought it purely used corm energy for that. Good to know! That will be a hard decision to make.
Dont feel bad, I am gonna have 6 or 7 bunches on plants with only 2-4 leaves. I plan to leave some to do what they do, and prune some to just a few hands and see the difference. I have 3-4 plants on each fruiting mat, so will likely continue fertilizing as my followers should bloom in june with a full compliment of leaves to ripen fruit. Ill let everyone know how it goes.
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Hey everyone,

I've finally got bananas! I've had this mat of Dwarf Orinoco for 8 years or so and have had 2 blooms previously, but both were naked. Third time's the charm! When it eventually happened, I imagined I would get a few bananas on a single hand, but there are 2 hands of 6 so far with a third hand emerging now. So excited!


This particular plant was looking pretty sad in January as they usually do in the winter, so I chopped off the top so it could reset. A couple leaves came out and the latest one was a bit small but I thought it was just because it was getting going again. Turns out it was a flag leaf. Anyway, I never even noticed the bloom emerge because it kind of came out the side of the p-stem near the top and was hidden by a piece of stem. The first hand is actually mostly still stuck in the stem and I was wondering if I should do some delicate p-stem surgery and help release it. I've heard of people doing this before.

What do you think?

This picture is from April 9th.
That is awesome, congratulations, bananas in Ottawa is a cool thing indeed.
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