High_Brix

Why is a musa so addicting????? Why do I have to grow them????
I'm hooked!! Help me!!!!!!!

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Ahava

A serious answer. The plant itself is rather amazing, and is very interesting. It has not only delicious, very healthy fruit. The way it propogates, and grows is I think very interesting to any plant buff. At least that's what I think. Even without the bananas hanging, it's a very beautiful plant.

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AnnaJW

It is very easy to get hooked on growing them. They are, in my opinion, fascinating plants. At least it's a relatively safe addiction.

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dablo93

the flowers, stem, roots and the leaves are special and often huge

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musa_monkey

Here in the UK to see a plant push out a 3 foot long leaf once a week in the height of the season is simply amazing.
That and the diversity of them keeps me hooked.

inkcube

i think it is any plant that fascinates us. i have friends with thousands of orchids (5000-12000 i have 1000), some with many carnivorous plants (i have hundreds of Nepenthes), and others with every species of fern imaginable - i choose to fill my greenhouse with many types of plants. growing up where and how i did i have a different perspective on bananas, i see them as a crop much like an American farmer sees corn or wheat.

Lodewijkp

im also addicted to growing plants, it is so interesting.
the reason i decided to grow bananas is that they are pretty, fast growing , and quite interesting, its only one of its kind.
and they are rather difficult to germinate in comparison with other plants which is quite a challenge.

and it also rewarding to see a giant leaf in a week

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austinl01

They are one of the fastest growing plants around. During the summer, what other plant can produce a leaf in just 2-3 days?

Bananas take a lot of abuse too. I know of no other plant that you can uproot it in the fall, throw it under the house bareroot for the winter, and then plant it back out in the spring to allow it to resume growth where it left off. Simply amazing if you ask me!

Bananas are the best plant to give an instant tropical effect, and they are pretty cheap too compared to other tropical plants like palms.

Bananas pup very easily so you can have a grove in a short period of time. You can share the extra pups with friends too.

All these qualities, along with others, makes the banana THE number one plant to grow! Yes, I know I'm biased. LOL.

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magicgreen

Good Afternoon everyone
Highbrix, I cant speak for everyone......but I think for myself it was love on
1st sight!!!! And then i realized i could actually grow a banana tree!!!

They get BIG!!! I like that!
They get BIG, real Quick! Like that too!
They are Beautiful! I love that!

To ME, they are FUN !FUN !FUN!

See i grow them in my backyard and front yard!
Maybe if I had a plantation, or had a major investment investment in marketing them, or solving the cancer cure with the growing of the banana plant, then I would probably be serious with the growing of Musa.

Alas...that is not the case. I backyard and front yard garden on a postage stamp.In the city at that! I have something in my neighborhood that a very small percentage of the citizens here have! And i love that. It feels special.
The leaves are so BIG and beautiful. Ohhh and the way they move in the wind is so smooth and graceful. Over these last few months i learned they come in beautiful colors as well. I like that too!

They make me smile. Iam so proud of my bananas and tell people about them all of the TIME! I get excited talking about them. They bring out the kid in me! especially when iam showing them off!

Dont they look so free with the wind blowing through them?
Makes me feel maybe some things can be put back right again!
Just my 2cents...........Magicgreen

P.S. Inkcube, Ive always thought fields of wheat and corn were beautiful, still do. Nowadays I add banana fields are beautiful too!

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Richard

High_Brix, from your 'net name you are a lover of sweet tastes. But deeper still, you probably have some relation to the person portrayed in Don Henley's "A Month Of Sundays". Give it a listen sometime.

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inkcube

magicgreen i too see beauty in fields of corn and wheat. the first time i saw a large field of wheat i was mesmerized! but you don't see people growing corn or wheat as ornamental plants. there is a variety of purple sorghum that us grown as landscape plants.

austinl01

Well, I actually grew some wheat and cotton as an ornamental once. I collected seed from Colorado and grew it here. Those wheat stalks are pretty neat looking, and the white cotton adds a different touch too.

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Average January Low: 31°F, Average August High: 92°F
Extreme Winter Lows: 5-15°F, Extreme Summer Highs: 100-112°F, Annual Precipitation: 52 inches

magicgreen

Ive grown ornamental corn and the tall broom corn is very nice. Ive grown ornamental wheat as well. As specimen plants wheat and corn work well in a home garden.

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Richard

There are some answers to these questions in the Introduction to the 1st annual report of the USDA (1863). It is a now-famous treatise on agriculture and human endeavors as a whole. And yes, it was written by Mr. Isaac Newton!

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High_Brix

I'm glad to see that the addiction is wide-spread.

Richard: That is a very good song I agree, but thankfully I'm not to that point yet, and yes I do like molasses on my pancakes.

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mskitty38583

who dosent love molassas on pancakes? and biscuts, and cornbread, and toast..etc. yummy! we all grow the nanas for different reasons. i love the big huge leaaves. and the flowers, which i havent had any yet. and for growing your own fruit. i love to play in the dirt. and if you can have something that you planted grow it makes you feel like you have accomplished something.

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