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They go fast at Vero. Great find on the plants ....hope they do well. Are you going to put them in the ground soon? |
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Good idea on calling them.
I'm planning on keep these in containers for a while and see what they do. I only grow in containers myself on my porch because I have a limited amount of yard space. What isn't lawn is various palm trees and ornamentals and hedge. However, I will likely give one or a pup to my neighbor. She has room to plant in the ground and loves bananas. |
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I was able to get the Blue Java on reserve. :woohoonaner:
Also, good news on my Ice Cream plants. I brought them indoors since it got down to 40's here and I figured they would be more cold sensitive due to transplant shock. They began to perspire almost immediately when I brought them indoors I think they were saying finally spring is here. I applied some plastic wrap over the soil surface after I saw a tiny bug in the soil. Also the tips of the leaves were sitting in water from the perspiration and starting to brown so I put some paper towel under the tips of the leaves. Since I brought them indoors it seems to have triggered a growth spurt in both plants. Here's a Before (Saturday) to after (Wednesday) with this new leaf unfurling. |
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Hi all,
I was able to pick up a Blue Java plant at Vero Beach today from Going Bananas. :0519: I was surprised with how tall it was in a small pot. I ended up planting it in a much bigger one with a heavily pine barked mixture with some potting soil that had perlite added. I hope that I didn't use too much pine bark but I am glad that it drains very quickly and is light to move around. Also my Ice Cream namwa plants in 50/50 perlite and potting soil are both continuing to grow quickly. |
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Hi all here is an update on these 2 bananas if anyone is curious how they turned out. I seem to be having some luck with the heavily pine barked soil mix.
The ice cream agristart I gave to my neighbor stopped growing for some reason so I've taken it back for now and given it extra fertilizer and water but the one that I have kept for myself has been doing great. Blue Java Agristart Ice Cream |
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You are doing great with the little plants. They still have the 1st leaves on them. which is as it should be. ... Foliar feeding helps a lot while the roots & corm are growing. Humidity, shading (indirect sunlight) and misting is the key to growing small TC plants. Keep up the good work!
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the first tc's i bought were icecreams/namwa and the easiest to grow in pots of them all, even lasted thru the winter great. i bought 7 of them. but when they got 3 and 4 ft tall [p-stem] some started to act up.
doing great there. now is the time to plant them in the ground :08: the last one i planted was one of the worst ones i had trouble with, pupped many times and still doesnt want to get big as the rest. |
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Those two large ones in the back are cavendish I think. I bought them at Walmart but it made no mention of the type of banana on the labels. The third from the back is a pup from those cavendish and the second from the front is a very small sweetheart. I also have 4 small ensete maurelli.
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I ended up planting the agristart ice cream one in my neighbor's yard (with permission :) ). And it seems to be doing well so far.
Here are some of my ensete maurellis. I love the look of them and can't wait to get them as big as I can this summer in containers. It should be a good race against my elephant ears. |
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