musella

Hi,

I open a new thread to show you some banana trees from my garden.
My garden it's a little tropical forest with plenty of endemics (from Reunion Island) fruit trees, ferns, bamboos etc... and banana plants.

Some parts were not visited since 100 years !

I've also prepare some plants to introduce regulary into my little forest.

Here it's very difficult to have new varieties because it's forbidden to import banana plants.
So, I have to ask some friends to carry them in their luggages...and sometimes, the corm arrives in a poor condition.

Last year, I bought from Internet an AE-Ae, but, in the travel, the stem was broken (and even the meristem). So, it died !

In March, I want to try another time, because I'm fond of this banana plant !
I have a good place to it... sun and shadows and an hygrometric ambriance from 80 to 100 %

Well,

Here's the pictures...


The brasilian pomme :

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A dwarf cavendish with banana fruits... very good banana !

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A dwarf cavendish with black stem :

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My little nursery with : Red (fruit), 1000 fingers, praying hands, sucre, plantain (very large and short banana fruits)...

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musella

Just for the fun !

Tropical rain over Reunion Island !


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All the best !

Xavier alias Musella from Reunion Island !

musella

Here there are 3 different banana fruits from my garden :

From left to right :

musa x paradisiaca (Plantain (banane carré))
Figue Gabou (dwarf cavendish)
Mille (perhaps 1000 fingers but not sure!)


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raygrogan

Please be careful about bringing in banana plants from other places. We in Hawaii were very lucky for a long time not to have some diseases, but, accidentally of course, someone brought them in with young plants. That is the only way many pests can travel.

(Like your tasty Cavendish - we can't grow that whole type because of BBTD disease, but it used to be easy.)

I think I moved a nematode that makes banana plants fall over from one garden to another (by being lazy and transplanting a plant that, duh, had fallen over). Now 20 years later that group still has trouble.

Once you get these pests it is too late, for you, and often for your neighbors.

Often a safe way to get new plants is to go thru your local university or other organization. They bring in plants, quarantine them, watch them in captivity a few years, etc. Our UH has tissue culture plants that are disease free.

musella

Yes, you're right !

But, when I buy a banana plant I pay every time a phytosanitary certificate.
Because I think it's important to preserve before treating and sometime too later.

Sometimes, when I'm not sure, I make deliver the banana corm in France (south) and my parents grow up it during 1 year... and after they send me a sucker !

I have a friend also in Malaga (south spain) ! He grows up for me the banana plant and verify the diseases and after he send me a sucker !

But you're right to notice this real problem !