luisport

i have one on the way...

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Musa Rajapuri, D. Brazilian, D. Orinoco, Pisang Ceylon, Da Jiao (Himalayan Fruit), x Fruit, Himalayan Mountain, Helen's Hybrid, Patupi, Lacatan, Hajaray

Paw Paw Sunflower, Prima 1216, Potomac, KSU Atwood, Jerry's Big Girl, Al Horns, KSU Chapell

https://growingfruit.org/t/my-small-...-orchard/19936

https://growingfruit.org/t/my-pear-collection/55683

https://growingfruit.org/t/my-apple-collection/53104

Going Bananas

Try emailing
crazy banana.
CB has PCeylon and the real
IceCream Java.

luisport

I buy my dwarf red from this shop. It's a great seller! It's Banana Time Musa Pisang Ceylon Mysore Giant Awesome Plant | eBay

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Musa Rajapuri, D. Brazilian, D. Orinoco, Pisang Ceylon, Da Jiao (Himalayan Fruit), x Fruit, Himalayan Mountain, Helen's Hybrid, Patupi, Lacatan, Hajaray

Paw Paw Sunflower, Prima 1216, Potomac, KSU Atwood, Jerry's Big Girl, Al Horns, KSU Chapell

https://growingfruit.org/t/my-small-...-orchard/19936

https://growingfruit.org/t/my-pear-collection/55683

https://growingfruit.org/t/my-apple-collection/53104

Don Sanderson

Thanks, I got a Pisang Ceylon and a Mona Lisa.

Cikas33

I have one. They are hardy to at least 28F.

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Cultivars and species that I have:

Musa basjoo
Musa Dwarf Namwah
Musa Fen Ba Jiao
Musa Ice Cream
Musa Pisang Ceylon
Musa thomsonii
Musa Dwarf Brazilian
Musa 1000 Fingers

crazy banana

P-stem, maybe, but the leaves will die with temperatures at 28F.

Cikas33

I'm talking about survival of the plant. All bananas will get damage on freezing temperatures, even Basjoo.

My point is, Pisang Ceylon will survive 28F without any protection ( for short period of time, like one night ).

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Cultivars and species that I have:

Musa basjoo
Musa Dwarf Namwah
Musa Fen Ba Jiao
Musa Ice Cream
Musa Pisang Ceylon
Musa thomsonii
Musa Dwarf Brazilian
Musa 1000 Fingers

SoCal2warm

south of Irvine, California, solid zone 10 (between 10a and 10b)

I had two of them. One was a tiny little pup (maybe 11 inches), the other was a 2 feet tall one that had two-thirds of its top leaf cut off. The small pup didn't make it over the first Winter but the larger one survived. After the winter it was moved from a large container into the ground and slowly grew. It doesn't seem to be the most vigorous growing, and the tips of the fronds got burnt in the sun, but it looked okay. It survived the next Winter and came out of it with only some slight wilting. By that time there were two small stalks with a total of five fronds. It didn't really look the most lush green, but it didn't look too bad either. It continued to slowly grow and survived the Winter after that too (which would be this last Winter, 2017-2018 ). It is now 6 feet high, the two stalks are thickening, and it sent up a small baby pup. Looks a bit more lush and green now than it did last year, even though there was a really hot heat wave over the Summer (it was kept well watered).

I've seen other bananas that have grown faster, grew with more vigor and looked better, but this has survived so far.

I'm always thinking about the remote possibility that maybe what I was sent wasn't actually really the correct variety, but I've tried to look carefully and all the details look consistent with other pictures of Pisang Ceylon I've looked at.

About 15 miles away from the coast, and the spot does get mostly full sun, so the sun and intense Summer heat can be difficult. (I'd say the climate is about halfway between coastal influence and desert)


A picture from last year can be found here: https://www.houzz.com/discussions/47...owing-in-socal