Musa 'Ele Ele' flowering
 

My Musa 'Ele Ele' at my house is just beginning to flower. It is only about 7ft tall, shorter than the 15-20ft they usually get. It has developed nice coloring at the bases of the leaves. I was afraid we would get a light frost Fri. night but it only got down to 36F.

http://new.photos.yahoo.com/leu242/a...04240086613/23

Eric

Re: Musa 'Ele Ele' flowering
 

Looks nice! Do you have a photo of the whole plant? I love to see those black trunks on this cultivar!

:banana_ba

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Nice plant! Did you buy it locally? (I'm over in Leesburg.) If you get some pups I'd like to trade for one- I have extra Pitogo, Dwarf Brazilian or Double, at 18" to 3'.

Paul

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Cool!

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I bought this at the Leu Gardens sale a couple of years ago. I work there and we had got some trays of banana plugs to grow and sell at our sales. I planted it out in Sept. 2005 and it really didn't have any of the dark coloring until this past summer. It also hasn't produced any pups yet. I think we still have some 'Ele Ele' plants in the greenhouse that we will have at the Spring Plant Sale coming up.

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Ele Ele in the wiki:
http://www.bananas.org/wiki/Musa_'Ele_Ele'

:)

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Eric- let us know when the plant sale is going to be. We have several members around Orlando, and I'd like to get there.

Paul

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The Spring Plant Sale here at Leu Gardens is March 24 & 25th (Sat. and Sun.), 9-5 both days. members only on Sat. from 8-9am. In addition, Going Bananas will be set up and selling bananas, too.

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Thank you, Eric. It sounds like something to get to, on both counts.

Paul

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Nice pics Eric, thanks for posting. Unrelated question...hows the musa ingens doing? If it has gotten any bigger, have you considered donating it to agristarts? I am sure you could command a nice commission off that one..

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It died a couple of months ago. It still only had grown 3 leaves since germinating.

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Eric, do you know of anything interesting at the Leu Gardens sale this weekend?

Paul

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There are about 40 vendors this year, including Going Bananas. I am running the Leu Gardens booth and have a few bananas for sale;

'Ele Ele'
'Mahoi'
'Pitogo'
cheesmani
sikkimensis
xishuangbannaensis