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08-18-2018, 08:37 AM | #1 (permalink) |
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How Well do Banana Plants Grow in California without Care?
How well do banana plants grow in California without irrigation or other special care? I ask because I want to know whether replacing burned vegetation with banana plants will prevent future wild fires. I suppose there are other plants that contain high percentages of water that might be planted but, I am asking about banana plants because we are more familiar with them.
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Re: How Well do Banana Plants Grow in California without Care?
Depends on the specific location. Near the coast in Southern California would be the best possible scenario in my opinion.
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Re: How Well do Banana Plants Grow in California without Care?
Good idea, but besides water requirements, you also have to take winter temperatures into consideration.
I have a Pisang Ceylon banana mat inland at my horse barn where we had to evacuate twice. I water whenever I can, but temperatures went up to 115F and fried the leaves a few weeks ago, though the stems survived. Every winter we get some nights with temperatures below 25F which also kills at least the foliage. At my house near the coast temperatures are more moderate year round and the plants are less stressed or will recover quicker. |
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Re: How Well do Banana Plants Grow in California without Care?
They should do as well as you will without food and water.
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Re: How Well do Banana Plants Grow in California without Care?
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I note that there is plenty of information about landscaping around houses for fire protection of houses in California. http://www.napafirewise.org/Doc/Livi...rochure%20.pdf As I recall, if heavy rain follows wildfires in California, there are mudslides. There is no information on which nonflammable plants prevent soil erosion or which will crowd out flammable weeds. Apparently the CA government doesn't want to take its own advice on public land. Somehow, it is the homeowner's responsibility. The government plants new trees in burned forests, thereby, perpetuating the problem. Last edited by aruzinsky : 08-19-2018 at 09:30 AM. |
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Re: How Well do Banana Plants Grow in California without Care?
As Richard so precisely said. They would be history fast without irrigation. Super hot, and extremely dry, humidity as well as precipitation.
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Re: How Well do Banana Plants Grow in California without Care?
If California would use prescribed burning during the dormant months then the fire hazard would be greatly reduced.
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Re: How Well do Banana Plants Grow in California without Care?
aruzinsky: "I note that there is plenty of information about landscaping around houses for fire protection of houses in California."
It's marketing B.S. Correct. In brush-fed California wildfires, temperatures on the leading edge exceed 1700°F. There's a reason the brush is termed Chaparral. A better solution is to establish burn zones -- akin to flood zones. When a fire starts in one you only contain it to the perimeter. Admittedly it's a hard sell to people who don't understand that fire is a major portion of California natural history.
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Re: How Well do Banana Plants Grow in California without Care?
There was one estate in Santa Barbara that was planted all around with banana plants as a fire break. It was never tested to my knowledge but was approved by the fire dept. Oh, and they were irrigated.
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Re: How Well do Banana Plants Grow in California without Care?
3.1 inches of rain for the year per Richard's chart? Wow! Our driest month is 3.89 inches here. Raining again today.
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Re: How Well do Banana Plants Grow in California without Care?
That's at my location 6 miles from the coast in Vista CA. Santa Barbara is about 100 aeronautical miles north and they received 8 in for the same period. Meanwhile where bananas are native they receive anywhere from 60 to 200 inches per year.
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Re: How Well do Banana Plants Grow in California without Care?
Where the fires are happening I wouldn’t expect them to last long. I live in Sacramento area and the heat when it picks up will fry mine quick without water.
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Re: How Well do Banana Plants Grow in California without Care?
I have a Pisang Ceylon. It struggled at first (another smaller Pisang Ceylon pup I had died over the Winter) and grew very slowly but it is now growing better. Once the pseudostem got over three feet tall it was a bit more vigorous and the fronds started looking more lush and green than the previous two years. This year surprisingly it was able to make it through thr heat wave (up to 105 degrees at one point, which is unusual here) without baking, just a few of the tips turned brown but the fronds all look pretty lush and green. It was kept very well watered. Several other tropicals suffered more damage in the heat wave than it did.
South of Irvine, about 15 miles from the coast, so the climate is about half coastal influence and half desert. It's in a fairly sunny spot that gets full sun during the hottest part of the afternoon. (But there are several other plants around it that may be helping to raise surrounding humidity levels a little bit) Zone 10 (solid 10, between 10a and 10b) |
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