Bordelon Beauty!!

CValentine · 10-20-2009, 03:25 PM

Here is my little Bordelon(Thank you jrozier!)!

I had tried getting the mother to grow...trimmed it, sheltered it, left it alone...no growth on her...AND OUT POPS A PUP!!

What a beautiful little pup!

How's everyone elses looking??
Care to give me a preview of what I have to look forward to out of my Beautiful Bordelon??

~Cheryl

cherokee_greg · 10-20-2009, 03:32 PM

momoese · 10-20-2009, 03:43 PM

Looks like the pup is pupping too?

Eric · 10-20-2009, 06:01 PM

Totally Sweeeeeet

!! Totally Beautiful, Luv those reds & greens!! Congrats on the new pup!! Oh, but believe me, ya don't wanna see mine. It's all brown, laying in the dirt, an has bugs all over it

!
But I will let ya see my Orinoco when it gets here

!!

LilRaverBoi · 10-21-2009, 10:31 AM

Sweet! Love the color on there...very pretty. Can't wait to see it when it gets bigger!

Bob · 10-21-2009, 03:38 PM

Congrats on the pup Cheryl. Don't be in any hurry to separate it till it's at least 5' tall ,better yet a full season of growth. They don't seem to develope roots as fast as some of the other varieties............learned that one the hard way!

jwmahloch · 11-17-2009, 02:20 PM

I bought 2 musa Bordelon's from Stokes Tropicals last fall and started them in pots inside over the winter. I planted them both outside in mid April. In September I divided 6 pups (3 from each plant). 2 of them are 6ft tall and in my basement now. My 2 Bordelon's outside still look great as of today (Nov 17th) and I am a month past our first frost. I used freeze Pruf.

It is very easy to divide pups, make sure they are at least 2 feet tall. I use a long knife and cut around the pup close to the parent plant. Put them in nursery pots and keep them in the shade for 2 weeks and then move them to sun.

I am still waiting for flowers. I was at the St Louis zoo this past weekend and they have a bordelon outside next to the reptile house that is flowering. Maybe next year I will get flowers and maybe bananas. -- Jeremy (St Louis MO)

Randy4ut · 11-17-2009, 05:45 PM

Here is what you can look forward to!!!

And the bloom:

Great banana, and well worth the wait, Cheryl!!! Congrats on the pup...

jwmahloch · 11-17-2009, 05:50 PM

The flowers look great. Did you overwinter your bordelens in the ground last winter? If so, what did you use to cover them? What type of fertilizer did you use?

sandy0225 · 11-19-2009, 07:21 AM

You will get blooms on bordelon really well, but no bananas. They are sterile and ornamental only, they don't produce any pollen to pollinate the bananas.(thanks Gabe for solving that mystery for me--I thought I was doing something wrong with them!). They will have several female blooms, and it'll look like they're going to make bananas but they never develop.
I guess if you had another something blooming at the same time, maybe you could cross them. But I never seem to have anything at the same time. I usually have bordelons that bloom every year here, because I keep the same plants from year to year and plant them out around here for my personal use. LOVE them! They are also 100% easier to carry overwinter than a zebrina, much more tolerant of cool greenhouse temps and basement storage.

cowboyup4christ · 11-19-2009, 07:13 PM

hope you like pups they are the most clumping banana I got seems like a new pup every week.

conejov · 11-19-2009, 08:19 PM

Congrats Cheryl on the new Pup. and It does look like the pup is producing its own pup. "BABIES MAKING BABIES"

TommyMacLuckie · 11-20-2009, 12:03 PM

It's funny how this variegated banana plant grows so fast - and so many pups. Of all variegated plants I've ever had and dealt with, it is THE fastest grower.

Has there ever been a connection made with these and the ornatas? They're basically the same. A little different, yes, but really similar.

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