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11-03-2011, 02:07 AM | #41 (permalink) |
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Re: Cardaba with fruit bent over
Ugh, so sorry Clare. If misery loves company, then rest assured you have company in Ventura. Lot's of shredded and snapped leaves. Not a pristine banana leaf to be found in this town! None of mine toppled or folded the p-stem, but that's only because they are shorter (younger) than yours. I'll have to think about what to do next year when my tall ones have grown to full size. I guess get rid of them is an option, but not one I'll go with until I have some blown over. At least they are not like real trees, that take years and years to recover. A saw a few real trees blown over around town today, and lots of fallen limbs.
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Re: Cardaba with fruit bent over
I have to say that that looks like a Home to me. I had a situtation like that in my yard for few times this year allready .
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Re: Cardaba with fruit bent over
1000 Fingers is about 10-12' tall at top of pseudostem. It is also fairly slender, so often will bend/fold under its own fruit weight.
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Re: Cardaba with fruit bent over
Thanks, everyone. I worked in the yard nearly all day yesterday. I used wire to tie up the variegated banana that was leaning so badly. One reason it might have done that was because I just removed a whole bunch of pups from the base of it. Another variegated banana did bend at the p-stem and rested on my AeAe in the ground, which was not damaged. The other benders were Brazilian and Cardaba. My 1000 fingers had beautiful super wide leaves before the wind, but they all got bent in the wind. Two of the benders are Cardaba with fairly new fruit. I guess I will just leave them and see what happens. A stalk with older fruit did not fold, but it is pretty bent over. I should harvest that bunch any day now. I picked just one to ripen inside to see if it is ready yet.
Thanks, Mark. I'm glad you didn't have any toppled ones. I'm definitely going to pull out the Cardaba mat not just because it topples but because it casts too much shade on the entire garden and is too large for this small lot. My Raja Puri is going too. If you and/or Andrew (or anyone wanting to come to pick them up) want to get either one, let me know. Last edited by Clare_CA : 11-04-2011 at 12:50 PM. |
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That's the one disadvantage of living in Southern California. WIND, WIND, WIND!
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No wind here
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No more here either. Just rain. I should probably put tarps around the bases of my plants soon. Don't want them rotting over the winter.
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Windy here now but no more tall varieties to worry about
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Breezy here and cold today with just a tiny bit of rain. Hope there is more rain coming. All the wind dries everything out really quickly.
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Lots of rain here and some pretty good wind gust.
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I hope your bananas are okay with the wind gusts yesterday, Tony.
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I hear you. I'm starting to wish that mine would all blow over:-)
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I'm sure Jon would say you need 10 x 10 varieties, like him!
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I'm hoping for a good cold winter to thin mine out.
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Yeah, ten varieties is pretty good, especially if they will fruit every year. My goal is to stay with the ones that have the best tasting non-tiny fruit that isn't too tall or imposing for my garden. I also want to stay away from ones that pup too frequently. If I had a lot of land, that would be a different story. I will keep the pseudo-Ice Cream even though it is tall because I have a place for it where it won't shade too much of the garden. Next year I'll know for sure which ones have to go, and I can probably get rid of at least half of the varieties that I have. I have some interesting ones that are still small that haven't fruited yet such as 1000 fingers, Kru, Pisang Ceylon, Malango, and we'll have to see how those do.
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