Finally I planted my bananas!
 

As I writed some weeks ago, I finally found some hard to find var. of banana plants for the Italian Market:
Belle, Dwarf Brasilian, Misi Luki, Dwarf Double Mahoi, Mona Lisa and Zan Moreno.

As some of you kindly adviced me, I waited patiently some time for planting them...but now it was surely the right time!...
:-)

Their pics...

DWARF DOUBLE MAHOI


MONA LISA


DWARF BRASILIAN


BELLE


MISI LUKI


ZAN MORENO (will remain some other days in the pot....too much little!...)

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Very nice collection!

Like I was telling Jo in another thread - soon you'll go from watching a new leaf per day in your collection to a new pup per day in your collection!
I'm yet to reach the new bunch per day status but I'm hard at work to get there!
:woohoonaner:

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Some progress....
:0513:



Double Mahoi


Dwarf Brsilian


Zan Moreno


Belle


Misi Luki


Mona Lisa


Whole sight

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Jarred is right!!! They will grow so fast.. and you will be showin us pic's of new pups...CONGRATS!!!!
Kylie

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Congrats on all the plants, they're looking good!

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The above shown var. "Belle" and "Misi Luki", have more yellowing leaves than the others. Do you think it is normal, or it depends from a nutritional deficiency, or maybe becouse they had more hot temperatures (they are in a south facing location...)?

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Give them more water and maybe some weak food!

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Wow, your bananas are very nice! :banana_az

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Very nice. Red

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Here my ending season banana report for you:

Dwarf Brasilian:
It was the most surprising one: comparing with the others, it was growing double in velocity, vitality and robustness. Same for its babies: 3 beautifully 35 ÷ 45 cm tall plants, with nice pink reflex on the bottom face of their leaf and some violet stripes on the top faces.



Dw. Brasilian zoom on the little babies

Misi Luki:
Not too much bad and nor too much good impression until now! But I have big expectations on its fruits!... It has not (togheter to FHIA-02 Mona Lisa one) the generousity of gifting me a borning of a little banana plant. Maybe it was too much exopsed to our hot and dry mediterranean climate. Also if I
helped it with regular watering, Misi Luki and Belle one becomed yellowing. Anyway it seems were of little help some applications of iron and other mineral traces.


Belle:
Almost same considerations of Misi Luki, but at least has ended with a little nice baby of 6 cm!!


FHIA-02 Mona Lisa:
Non special results: strangely remained more little than the dwarf ones (Brazilian, Double Mahoi and 'Zan Moreno'), and not borning of little plants.


Mona Lisa very little progress

Dwarf Double Mahoi:
It was another nice surprice: maybe becouse I know it is very rare and particular, I was convinced it should have bad growth. Instead it was growing very healthy and with good vitality. Wonderful the foliage and the almost dark pseudostem rendering! And, the more, 3 little plants 6 ÷ 30 cm tall is
satisfatory no?



Dwarf Zan Moreno:
A truly banana for potting: little, nice foliage with some violet stripes on the top faces.And a welcome to its almost 5 cm tall.




A view with (in progress) "Comune di Sicilia", Dw. Double Mahoi and Dw. Brasilian.


Now it is two weeks of uncommon november cold weather her in Sicily (Italy), and I covered the ground with some mulch and dry leaf.
Do you think I need to protect more them, at least the baby of few cm tall?

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Hey Francesco,

wonderful plants you have there!
I live in Germany and it is not possible for me to plant my dessert Musas into the garden. I have to take Musa basjoo and Musa sikkimensis to plant them outside.
I think you don't have to protect your plants till it is freezing.

Greetings Oliver

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Those are good looking plants Francesco, what lows do you get there in the winter?


Ron

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Here my average minimum:

Month| Tmin
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1 | 7,5 |
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2 | 7,1 |
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3 | 8,4 |
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4 | 10,7|
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5 | 14,8|
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6 | 19,2|
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7 | 22,5|
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8 | 23,1|
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9 | 20,5|
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10 | 16,6|
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11 | 12,5|
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12 | 9,3 |
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The extreme minimum, from historical data, has never been, between January and March, less than -4!