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niblicksrus

06-11-2010 06:09 PM

Neglected Valery Corm Produced Many Pups

I thought I'd share this photo that I took recently.

Several months ago, I had dug up this huge Valery corm and haphazardly discarded it in a corner. I didn't pay much attention to it, but then I noticed that pups started growing from the unrooted corm. There are 8 pups so far. It only gets an occasional squirt of water as I'm passing by with the hose. This illustrates how resilient these plants can be!

Abnshrek

06-11-2010 06:29 PM

Re: Neglected Valery Corm Produced Many Pups

Remarkable site :^)

LilRaverBoi

06-11-2010 07:55 PM

Re: Neglected Valery Corm Produced Many Pups

NOICE! (that's my Australian 'nice!' if you didn't catch that) :ha: Yeah, bananas are pretty tough plants....I mean, how many other plants can you chop off, dig up the roots of and toss in a heap to die and they still grow?? Very few. That's almost an identical story to how I got my first plants. Corm got chopped up and discarded in the compost pile at my work....and sprouted into 7 healthy plants!

Thanks for sharing!

Kostas

06-12-2010 04:30 PM

Re: Neglected Valery Corm Produced Many Pups

Its fascinating how tough it is! I would plant it again now just for the sake of its survival till now!!! But if you got no space for it,i would surely be more than glad to take a pup...:goteam:

Dean W.

06-12-2010 06:48 PM

Re: Neglected Valery Corm Produced Many Pups

Cool, are you going to plant it?

niblicksrus

06-12-2010 06:59 PM

Re: Neglected Valery Corm Produced Many Pups

Thanks for the comments everyone!

After I dug it up, I planted a large pup that I'd removed. I gave the gigantic corm to my neighbor, who planted it in his yard. He had more room than I did, as my yard is already filled with banana plants and other tropicals.

Jack Daw

06-12-2010 08:59 PM

Re: Neglected Valery Corm Produced Many Pups

Valery is pretty cold hardy, have you tasted the fruit?

Quote:

Originally Posted by LilRaverBoi (Post 131032)

NOICE! (that's my Australian 'nice!' if you didn't catch that) :ha:

Gotta love Australia and Aussie accent. It's one of my dream countries. If it wasn't using the Internet filter and Kevin Rudd was more of a prisoner, that is. :D

niblicksrus

06-13-2010 12:29 PM

Re: Neglected Valery Corm Produced Many Pups

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jack Daw (Post 131138)

Valery is pretty cold hardy, have you tasted the fruit?

Yes, that Valery did bear fruit. In fact, the photo in my avatar is one of the bunches from that plant. It was very tasty!

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