What did you plant today (bananas)? - Page 8

Greenie · 10-23-2007, 10:18 PM

planted a Manzano,Dwarf Namwah,and Ney Poovan 1 week ago.

karunasagar108 · 10-27-2007, 10:24 PM

:06: Planted an Ice Cream, red banana, saba, goldfinger, grand nain, apple, lady finger, giant cav.,raja puri, a few different mangos, some other fruit trees, and a countless amont of assorted vegetables, all in the past month.

bananimal · 11-10-2007, 10:35 PM

Planted Dwf Namwah and 2nd Red Iholene (varig) from potted pups. Set them high as they are in the hurricane river zone near the roadway. If you saw the water level I got from Katrina you would know what I mean. Hope they establish themselves ok for next year.

Cold as heck right now - 69 deg F. Still using the pool though when breaking a sweat digging holes. So is the Bananimal, Chloe - she loves it. The garden is next with emphasis on "hairloom" tomatoes.

When the gardening is done I'm going back to snook fishing - they are on the beach right now shooting through the troughs 10 feet from shore. Just another day in paridise.

Oh yeah, saw the neighborhood bobcat last night stalking the outside of the fence - hope it doesn't smell the dwf orinoco and goldfinger flowers. The bees and wasps sure do.

jeff tn · 11-15-2007, 07:31 AM

Nothing today,but will plant about 50 cavendish bananas around April 22nd.

MediaHound · 11-18-2007, 06:39 PM

Today I relocated my High Noon to a different part of the yard, dug up a lot of Orinoco that were scattered around, trying to keep everything together now for the most part. Also today I planted out my Dwarf Nam Wah. I also relocated an unknown to be near my other NO ID.
And yesterday I planted my Black Balbisiana into the ground!

AnnaJW · 11-22-2007, 07:35 PM

Today I transplanted two Little Prince pups. I ran out of soil or I would have transplanted at least fthree or four more. I am up to my ears in Little Prince's!!!

D_&_T · 11-24-2007, 02:20 PM

potted the 3 Orinoco from Jarred, in their home for winter with a few Alocasia odora

bananimal · 11-24-2007, 06:04 PM

Five arugala and two basil between the Goldfinger (in bloom) and the Hua Moa. Yum yum!

bencelest · 11-28-2007, 11:42 PM

Ah, I did not plant anything today but I moved all of my potted bananas to a shelter now that the prediction will be close to freezing this Saturday.

AnnaJW · 11-28-2007, 11:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bencelest

Ah, I did not plant anything today but I moved all of my potted bananas to a shelter now that the prediction will be close to freezing this Saturday.

Ahhhhhhh!!!!! Close to freezing?!! NOT a good thing.

bencelest · 11-28-2007, 11:54 PM

Yeah! I know. But I hope my bananas will be OK.
Pics will follow.

bencelest · 12-13-2007, 10:19 AM

My new baby : a lady finger from Logee's.
I am surprise how nice looking it is when I received it yesterday. Behind is a Tainung papaya that will bear fruit at 3 feet. So they say.

island cassie · 12-13-2007, 01:48 PM

Nice looking plant!!

bencelest · 12-13-2007, 01:56 PM

Casie:
How surprise I was.
But do you think I should transplant it now to a bigger pot since it is planted on a 4" pot? I feel sorry for it because as big as it is where are the roots going? The depth of the pot is I think only 3 inches.

island cassie · 12-13-2007, 02:03 PM

Well - I'm not very experienced with growing them in pots - but I would think that if your winters are warm enough to keep the plant growing over the winter, it wouldn't hurt to pot into a bigger pot. I think that is what I would do - especially as nanas are greedy feeders, it is possibly hungry too although it looks good. Lets see what the others think?

Cassie

mikevan · 12-13-2007, 02:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bencelest

Casie:
How surprise I was.
But do you think I should transplant it now to a bigger pot since it is planted on a 4" pot? I feel sorry for it because as big as it is where are the roots going? The depth of the pot is I think only 3 inches.

It won't grow much over the winter, however it would be good to pot it up into a 1-gallon pot similar to that black pot you have there in the picture if for nothing more than to provide more soil mass to help moderate temperature and moisture changes a bit. The smaller pot will dry out much faster too with that large nanner, making your work more. A larger pot will stay hydrated and increase the time between waterings.

Remember, nanners don't like wet feet - even more, they don't like cold wet feet. Keep it moist over the winter but just so - not wet. It'll grow some but it's fastest growth will begin this Spring when the days get longer and things warm up a bit.

Be well,
Mike

bencelest · 12-13-2007, 04:22 PM

Thanks guys for a quick reply.
I am now going to drop everything and I will do the transfer.

bencelest · 12-13-2007, 07:32 PM

I just transplant my baby as Mike said.
I can breath now but the roots are so rootbound that there seemed not to have any soil anymore.
I painstakingly untangled the roots one by one and spread them evenly to a one gallon pot.
I used warm water in the process.
Thanks again.

Benny

mskitty38583 · 12-13-2007, 10:13 PM

thats how my hcm was. so many roots and not very much dirt. it was a painstaking process wasnt it? it will be worth it in the end.

bencelest · 12-14-2007, 01:07 AM

Oh, yes I learned that process from another thread, the citrus forum.
For years I always advised not to disturb the roots as much as possible but when I see that the roots are very much rootbound, I untangle them very carefully so as not to damage their root hairs.

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