new life to the European Section
 

Hey there,

I'd like to ressurect the European Section..

So where are you guys :)

Re: new life to the European Section
 

Hi,
joined the forum yesterday and live in Sweden (unfortunatly not the best country for growing bananaplant...).
For now I am growing my plants indoors (ensete glacum, ensete ventricosum, musa velutina and some other type I cannot remeber what it was).

Reading the forum and watching photos of everyone elses bananaplants and then looking at mine I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong as my plants look alot different then everyone else... See if I can get some photos up.

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Hello,
I live in Poland. I have many bananas like SDC, DC, siam ruby, basjoo, red dwarf, coccinea, ornata, velutina, dwarf orinoco, manzano, sumatrana, helen's hybrid, maurelli and normal ventricosum. But now I'm growing my plants indoors too.

pikkenix I'm waiting for photos your the bananas

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WojtekS, impressiv list of bananas! Do you grow them indoors whole year or do you place them outside during the summer? If so, when do you move them outside, and when do you move them indoors again, is it depending on the temperature?

Will post pictures later today...

Re: new life to the European Section
 

hey,

it sure is depending on the temperatures since bananas can't take too much cold. A single frost night may not kill a basjoo or siki.. but most of the other varitys one can grow.

It's a good choice to get the plants outside in the sun during higher temperatures and get them back inside while the weather would kill them.

And Welcome pikkenix btw :)

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Pikkenix thank you.
Boffcheck's right. At night when the temperature is greater than 10 degrees, I issue plants outdoors and vice versa ; )

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Great info, thanks guys! Nice to have some guidelines from others.

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Helo, I live in switzerland and have a dwarf cavendish, muss velutina, rajapuri, and i suppose is a bajsoo. all in the living room with me and standing behind the glass window and hoping to get some sunshine thru the thick, grey, senseless fog.
cheers
sups

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:woohoonaner:
Glad to see the new activity here.

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I'm glad too :)

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Hello I'm from Switzerland
My bananas are : Ensete maurelli, musella lasciacorpe, Dwarf-Cavendish,
truly-tiny, ornata, red-jamaica, orinoco, basjoo, sikimensis, Zebrina, thai-black, grain-nine

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Nice list star-trek!

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I'm a banana-man from Orebro, Sweden.
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Representing the Netherlands ;)

Been around in Musa for a long time, and although we don't have that many possibilities growning them outside year round I keep trying new species!

Currently musa ' Tibet' is one of the best for me!

Kind regards,
Remko.

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Hi from Poland ,

My name is Greg , got banana addiction 2 years ago. Enough of waiting tomorrow ensete ventricosum maurelli, musa itinerans indian form and sikkis go to the ground outside :-)

Species i'm growing for today :

Ensete Ventricosum Maurelli
Musa Dwarf Cavendish
Musella Lasiocarpa
Musa Basjoo
Musa Sikkimensis
Musa Velutina var.markkuana
Musa Sikkimensis x Paradisiaca
Musa Rubinea
Canna Musifolia
Musa Balbisiana Gigantea
Musa Gran Nain
Musa Veinte Cohol
Musa x Paradisiaca
Musa Saba
Musa Ochracea
Musa Acuminata
Musa Yunnanesis
Ensete Ventricosum
Musa Helen's Hybrid
Musa Gros Michel
Musa Zebrina
Musa Balbisiana Thai Black
Musa Paradisiaca x Seminifera
Musa Arunachalensis
Musa Itinerans Indian Form
Musa Sikkimensis Red Tiger
Musa Siam Ruby Green / Margarita

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Very nice assortment of plants.....

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Which ones have you had to fruit? ... Any???? ...

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Not yet. In Poland it is kinda difficult with too short warm period. But put on greenhouse this year. Counting on veinte cohol , that one apparently has a very short cycle , so will see.

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That's awesome you have Veinte cohol over there!!!
Any pics?

Here was my results with VC last year. Very fast in my 8b! Can't wait for them this year! Very cold sensitive though. They go dormant before Cavendish!

http://www.bananas.org/f2/veinte-coh...ing-46374.html

Good luck and awesome collection!

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I have read your Veinte Cohol raport and it good news for me. I see there is really chance I will have bananas before end of the season.
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