Vickie H.

I am taking a regular banana and putting it in water. I have a water banana, so I know it can be done. I am starting out with it in a bucket with it setting in about an inch of water. Then I am going up to maybe 2 inches. I will keep doing this untill it is setting with the pot underneath the water. So far it has been setting in water about 2 weeks. If this works I will grow others in water. This is how you get cannas used to growing in water for your water garden if it is not in water when you start out with it.

Vickie H.

here it is so far

sandy0225

been there done that. It works fine. I grew a bordelon like that for two years in the pond display. But I left it out there last fall and it froze solid and that was the end of it.

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saltydad

Sandy- Did you also acclimate it as Vickie is doing? I'd like to try this with one of the Bordelon I got from Agri-Starts. Thanks.

Vickie- What is a 'water banana'?

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Vickie H.

I have DCavendish I bought as a water banana in 2007. It has been in water ever since. Even in the winter in my basement with temp as low as 50*F. Here it is

sandy0225

I just grew mine out of the pond until it got root bound. then it was needing to sit in a saucer anyway, so I just put it in the pond. It tried to float so I put a cement block on each side of it to hold it down. I took it out the first year after it frosted and figured I'd killed it then, but I put it into the greenhouse anyway and didn't really water it or anything, but in the spring it started growing so I put it back in the pond again. That fall I really forgot it and didn't take it out till this spring which it was a goner then because it sat here in 6" of water all winter frozen solid. STINKY!!!

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ewitte

I wonder if this would be a good transition for my hydroponic banana. Its eventually going to need to go back outside.

Vickie H.

saltydad

Looking good, Vickie!

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