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Savannah Bananas summer 2023
Hey y’all this is just a lil update of how the bananas are doing after our terrible polar blast around Christmas 2022
IMG_5389.jpeg Abyssinian bananas planted this spring, I believe around March, have taken off like crazy this year along with the blood bananas to the left that survived the polar blast. I transplanted the other blood banana from the right side of this garden to get more sun and replaced with the Heliconia but I guess I missed part of the corm because there’s a straggler growing up there as well! IMG_5390.jpeg Ice Cream seems to have finally gotten established here and has taken off. The largest plant now is actually a pup from last year, while the mother plant has recovered it isn’t quite as tall, but a very healthy Mat of 4 plants so far. IMG_5391.jpeg Thai black also bounced back well, it froze to the ground this winter but it already has its first pup shooting up! IMG_5392.jpeg My poor Ae’Ae was planted late February, had its first leaf after planting April 30th, it’s next leaf May 21st and it’s next cigar is just barely starting to be visible in the middle of the p-stem. Hopefully it can pick up the pace and get some good growth before it cools off IMG_5393.jpeg These two Abyssinians survived the frost and bounced back well, the one on the left oddly enough never completely defoliated even tho the temperature was down to 23??? The one on the right did lose all of its leaves but it was pushing a new cigar three weeks later or so. Hopefully they will do even better this year with the new pond offering up radiant heat. IMG_5394.jpeg The bordelons were torched down to the ground but have grown back impressively and of course the basjoo behind them never really stopped growing they did however lose all of their leaves during the cold event. IMG_5395.jpeg This is where I moved the blood banana to help block my compost pile because the city has just assumed it was trash two or three times now. I think because it’s so close to the compost and in mostly full sun that it’s growing so fast that it’s almost choking itself, I have to be sure to keep up with lots of water for these ones back here. |
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Last but not least the Siam Ruby bananas are back and beautiful as ever, but for some reason they don’t seem to put in any height. |
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Awesome looking plants and yard!
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Very nice garden! Do you get bananas?
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Re: Savannah Bananas summer 2023
Very beautiful gaden, I've never heard of bordelons it's a striking. How established are most of your bananas ?
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I like the way you have integrated your bananas with other plantings!
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Re: Savannah Bananas summer 2023
All the bananas have been in the ground for a year minimum except the Ae’Ae and the Two Abyssinians from the first picture. I’ve had Abyssinians in that spot for three years now, but the first year I lost one to overwatering, the second year they both took heavy freeze damage so I transplanted them in front of the compost and replaced with two new ones this spring
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Re: Savannah Bananas summer 2023
A very straight forward way to use banana peels in the garden is to add the whole peel to the soil when planting.
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The jungle area in the outback looks 🔥.
Water feature is nice, mine are still full of tiny tree frog tadpoles so I didn't move the tropical fish(red platys swords and guppies) outside this season |
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Thanks for that feed back. It gives me hope that Siam Ruby would do well here, in ground, in winter. I had and lost to rot a Siam R. that would pup prolifically, like the ones you have and they too would not get tall. I got another clone to replace it and this one has gotten taller first and then has put out just two pups so far (got it back in April). This clone is acting more like a normal banana instead of bunching up with a clump of babies.
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It is going to get wet and windy.
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Any advice for how to straighten the Abyssinians back up?
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I might consider putting a few stakes in the ground and tying them to those. Might need some big stakes though. Although you can probably use short stakes close to the ground because I imagine that would create enough of an opposing force, even at an angle, to hold the p-stems in place until they figure themselves out. Or Maybe tie them to any structure within a reasonable distance?
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Nice quick solution. Looking almost normal
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