Best Practice to grow TC Bananas - Page 3

edwmax · 01-06-2017, 10:10 AM

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beam2050 · 01-12-2017, 01:07 PM

just got 2 pisang raja and 2 mona lisa plants from florida hills. wanted to check them out a little more than the gros michal.

potting them I found the mona lisa had a larger root system than the raja. the raja while bigger has a root system like the gros michal and the michal is smaller than the mona lisa. one mona lisa has a small pup.

Richard · 01-12-2017, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by beam2050

I could not tell you at this time. agristarts might could be a good guess. you need a license to buy from agristarts. any body know what they charge for a tray. Richard? 250, 350? I assume they will mix. little hard to keep those creatures alive in those small pots. right light, watering, feed, pots.

Cost is dependent upon what you buy. They run around $1.50 per TC and there's 72 in a tray. Of course shipping charges are extra.

I don't recommend mixing TC's in a tray. The bananas are poorly labeled and will jump around during shipping. There's also additional charges for mixing varieties in a tray.

beam2050 · 02-19-2017, 09:36 AM

tc's from florida hill nusery. on the left is a kandarin, center siam ruby and the left a maurelii. received these last week.

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Nicolas Naranja · 02-20-2017, 05:09 PM

My two cents after much trial and error over the years. I put the plants on my back porch which is shaded so that the planta can acclimate to outside conditions. I water once a day. After 2 weeks on the porch I can pot them and put them in the nursery. If you have a greenhouse you can pretty much skip the hardening on the porch step, just pot them directly.
My usual pot size is 1 gallon and I have used all kinds of different potting mixes with success. My PhD research showed that 12g per pot of osmocote 15-9-12 was adequate for fertilizer. Daily irrigation was best as well.

edwmax · 02-20-2017, 10:14 PM

Ok ... to update

Several weeks ago I was put in contact with Dr. Esendugue Greg Fonsah. I ask what was the best practice to grow TC bananas as received from Florida Hills nursery or Agri-Starts.

After a week or so he replied with links to 3 research reports and 3 you-tube vids. Not a direct answer to my question; but 2 of the reports (Georgia experiments 2003 & 2004) did state how they handled new TC from Agri-Starts. The links are:
http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstrea...1/35010086.pdf
http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstrea...1/36010048.pdf

2003: The TC were put into 3L pots with 15 g of Osmocote and placed in the greenhouse (March 3rd to April 24th).

2004: The TC were treated the same, but were grown in the greenhouse for 6 weeks. The platelets were about 12" tall p-stem when transplanted. ... A recommendation was made in this report for the TC to be grown 12 weeks in the greenhouse.

The two reports basically shows my steps (recommendations) and assumptions above for growing young TC plantlets are not off base. ... All my potted bananas are doing much better with misting a couple of times a day. The GM TC is now about 10" tall with 5 new leaves.

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