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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 01-20-2024, 06:28 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,497
Posted By Petey
Re: Winter Grow

There's got to be something wrong, in a fortuitious way, about the windows in my apartment here in the Boston area. My living room windows face south, and my presumed namwah is still throwing out...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 10-21-2023, 01:13 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 510
Posted By Petey
Re: Should I just cut it?

I've been thinking about the same kind of thing — I just moved my probable namwa inside and it's a little too tall to be getting light from the windows, but I haven't wanted to cut it yet. Maybe I...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 10-09-2023, 05:16 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,422
Posted By Petey
Re: container bananas 2023

A few amused looks and. a few thrilled kids. It was nice.
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 10-09-2023, 08:56 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,422
Posted By Petey
Re: container bananas 2023

Moved the bananas inside, but decided to put the VC in a 10 gallon pot inside a planter and take it to my office where there is a big sunny window. Problem is doesn’t fit in my car. Solution:...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 09-30-2023, 10:58 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,422
Posted By Petey
Re: container bananas 2023

Yup! 3 years old — I bring it in and out every year.
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 09-30-2023, 07:25 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,422
Posted By Petey
Re: container bananas 2023

Namwa revived with three babies (my first babies ever on this plant), and my Veinte is huge. About the move them inside in the next week or two.

If anyone has good suggestions for a large bucket...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-20-2023, 06:28 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,446
Posted By Petey
Re: What is the *smallest* container you've ever gotten a banana to fruit in?

thanks doofus!
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-19-2023, 10:25 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,446
Posted By Petey
Re: What is the *smallest* container you've ever gotten a banana to fruit in?

If you mean one of the large plastic tubs — it wouldn't go with the aesthetic of the space I'm thinking of overwintering in, which is the first floor of my office building where we see many members...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-18-2023, 07:33 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,446
Posted By Petey
Re: What is the *smallest* container you've ever gotten a banana to fruit in?

Does anyone have a favorite 15-20 gallon bucket that’s robust to being moved around? I’m looking at some plastic feed tubs and such. Would like it to be aesthetically pleasing too since it’s likely...
Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 08-17-2023, 07:52 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 736
Posted By Petey
Re: 3rd year basjoo's?

I'm not an expert, but I believe those thin leaved pups are sword suckers, which have broad rhizomes and are good propagation material.
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-13-2023, 10:11 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,446
Posted By Petey
What is the *smallest* container you've ever gotten a banana to fruit in?

I'm up north and am space constrained in an apartment on the second floor. Curious re: the title.

I have a likely namwah (sold as ice cream) in a 10 gallon, a double mahoi in a 10 gallon, and a...
Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 08-07-2023, 08:55 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,328
Posted By Petey
Re: basjoo breaking ground

subsonic — have you written a comprehensive guide to your cultivars and methods anywhere? Like I said above, I really want to try to get a basjoo in the ground near my parents in NH next year,...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-07-2023, 01:51 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 2,202
Posted By Petey
Re: pretty sure its not a flag and a few pics of the banana plants

Wow! You're doing all this in Toronto!! I'll have to read through all your posts again and take more notes for what I'm trying to do here. And I'm heartened you got a namwah to fruit going inside <>...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-05-2023, 09:20 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,422
Posted By Petey
Re: container bananas 2023

It’s Marine Cuisine from Fox Farm and it’s my primary fertilizer for tropicals — bananas seem to love it.
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-04-2023, 09:05 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,422
Posted By Petey
Re: container bananas 2023

Revived Namwah has 2 baby leaves; VC has a robust billion https://imgur.com/a/m58GlCb
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-04-2023, 08:50 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 2,320
Posted By Petey
Re: Viente Cohol vs Patupi/Kokopo for Zone 6b or 5a Patio Plant for Fruiting

You were right. My VC, which I bought from Larry in early spring and kept indoors, was a sluggish starter here in 6b, but took off like a rocket once it got hot in late June and has been putting out...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-04-2023, 04:46 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 2,202
Posted By Petey
Re: pretty sure its not a flag and a few pics of the banana plants

subsonic remind me what zone you're in?
Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 08-04-2023, 04:44 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 5,562
Posted By Petey
Re: Helen's Hybrid Update

Ah, alas, was hoping for better news, but thanks!
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 07-16-2023, 05:51 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,422
Posted By Petey
Re: container bananas 2023

Repotted Mahoi doing well two weeks later. New baby already on mother plant.

https://i.imgur.com/yznh7em.jpg
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 07-16-2023, 06:39 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,422
Posted By Petey
Re: container bananas 2023

Question for @subsonicdrone or others:

This likely namwah (sold as blue java) is about 3 years old and 6" tall which is getting a little too tall for it to get sunlight in my house. Normally I have...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 07-08-2023, 03:09 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,422
Posted By Petey
Re: container bananas 2023

*gene wilder voice* it's alive...IT'S ALIVE

https://i.imgur.com/7IuBFyz.jpg
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 07-04-2023, 06:54 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,422
Posted By Petey
Re: container bananas 2023

No, I haven’t inspected the corm. I’ll move it into a more sheltered by rain location and give it a bit of Boomerang.
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 07-04-2023, 05:19 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,422
Posted By Petey
Re: container bananas 2023

Well, I got home to good news and bad news.

The good news: my VC seems like it pushed out probably 2-3 leaves in the few days I was gone, and is overall pretty happy with the heat and rain, even at...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 07-03-2023, 12:39 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,422
Posted By Petey
container bananas 2023

Forgive me if I am usurping subsonicdrone here, but wanted to kick off a thread.

I currently have the following bananas in containers:


double mahoi (one mom, two babies)
likely namwah (sold as...
Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 07-02-2023, 08:05 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,412
Posted By Petey
Re: Anyone growing Short Cycle Cold Hardy Bananas

I bought a Viente Cohol and have been growing it in a bucket in Boston this spring. It is both more robust than I was warned (i.e. we had some nights in the 50s and it was fine) and less fast growing...
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