What is the most growth youve gotten in a day??
 

I know i cant be the only one who has done this....lol. I have been pretty impressed by how much my basjoo was growing so i decided to break out the ol tape measure and really see how much it was growing in a day. Its cigar leaf grew over 8 inches in one day. What are some of your records???

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some of my leaves only grow 6 -8 inches. :)

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Well I have thought about it, but never measured. I am going to have to check out a few plants.

My neighbors must already think I have a mental problem, always outside giving my plant strange looks.

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The fastest growth I have is on an Ensete glaucum. It puts out a new 6-7' leaf every 4 days. When a new leaf opens, the next leaf is already about 2' out, so I bet it gets 8-12" per day. The edible bananas I have probably do 4-6"/day.

Compare that to my fastest growing palms which get 1-2"/day tops!

8"/day on a basjoo is awesome!!! You're doing something right :D

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I've never really measured, but I'm pretty sure I've gotten close to 12" in a day's time before. Given proper conditions, bananas grow VERY fast. That's one of the main reasons I grow them....because they are very charismatic plants (if that adjective even can apply to plants). They change so fast day to day that they are fun to grow. Rather than seeing a plant put out a new leaf every now and then, you can almost WATCH bananas grow! I put a mark on a new leaf once just to see how fast it was growing, and it was up another centimeter within an hour or two!

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I'd say its 12-18" in a day for a larger plant in great conditions, maybe even 2ft of leaf growth. :^)

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I like your idea! I'm going outside to mark the leaves now :D

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That made me laugh.. & think of "how not to mark your banana's for dummies".. Don't mark the center if the leaf is coming up you won't be able to see your mark till the leaf is opening. :^)

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Great idea for a thread! :D I'm totally new to growing banana plants and I only have one [a DC]. But I measured it last night, from the ground to the tip of the new unfurled leaf, and it was 15 1/4 inches. I'll start measuring it every night and keep a log. I have a Black Thai and Ice Cream, coming in the mail, that were shipped yesterday. I'll keep a log on those too! :D

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It's been 1.5 hours and a cardaba has grown 1cm and an Ice cream has grown 2 cm :D

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i know exactly how you feel. i am out there lookin, touching the leaves to measure how much is grown and checking for pups. they just look at me like what the hell is that kid doing!

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Took a couple of basjoos to a flea market, a couple of years ago. One had just about a half inch of the little squiggly thread, at the tip of the leaf, showing in the morning. I t was one of the last items sold and, at that time, it was up about 5 inches, so a gain of about 4½ inches in 8 hours.

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Yup yup...sounds about right. They grow crazy fast if you have a way of accurately seeing how fast they actually are growing.

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That's why I'm using a yardstick and measuring from the ground to the tip of the newest leaf. That's also why I've made a chart. When I posted the latest photo of it in the "share an image" thread, I measured it first [at 11 pm last night] and it was 15 1/4 inches tall [using method above]. I measured again at 2:30 pm, today, and it was 16 inches tall! :D I'll measure it again at 11 pm and put that on the chart!
Btw, I don't include the curly thread at the end, Lol!

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OK, everybody calm down, your having way too much fun. LOL JK Carry on!

Now where did I leave that tape measure?

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I thought you had a special pocket so it never gets lost.. lol :^) Dave's Carry-all (not coverall) :^)

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My thai black puts out about a foot of its new leaf on warm days. At that rate a new leaf would open about every 3 days!

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LOL...I do the same thing i probably check on my plants 5 or more times a day sometimes. My neighbors have to think im crazy. Shoot Im thinkin about going and looking at them now before it gets dark...lol

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14" & 2 pups :^) in 24

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My neighbors must think I'm crazy too. I go out and look at my bananas several times a day. I just had surgery on my right foot (it's in a cast). Yet I still hobble outside on crutches a couple times each day to look at the nanas :D