Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-04-2014, 12:21 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,740
Re: Flower?
What has happened? All my flowers are falling out and not producing bananas? It is very much a letdown.
Can I fix it? Or is it...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-25-2014, 09:56 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,740
Re: Flower?
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-23-2014, 07:22 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,740
Re: Flower?
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-22-2014, 03:31 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,740
Re: Flower?
I just wish I knew what kind of banana plant it...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-09-2014, 09:22 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,740
Re: Flower?
True. I have never had a flower in 15 years of bananaing...but it looks like it's coming. I am excited and apprehensive all at once.
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-08-2014, 05:00 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,610
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-27-2012, 08:17 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,870
Salting the dirt
A friend of mine said that he salts his dirt before planting the banana to encourage growth and to speed banana production.
He uses about a cup of regular table salt for a 3x3 area of dirt and mixes...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-17-2012, 09:10 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,305
Starting over...
I recently returned from my year long deployment in the Middle East and much to my chagrin, I have to start over with my bananas.
I had about 17 or 18 in the back yard during the summer before I...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-27-2011, 12:17 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 5,163
Re: Bananas in the Arabian desert
The update is that the naysayers are correct. The sun just beat the poor plants down. I think they can handle the heat alright -- given extra amounts of water to gulp down. But the sun is so...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-03-2010, 09:36 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 5,163
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-03-2010, 02:55 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 5,163
Re: Bananas in the Arabian desert
Scott absolutely NAILED it with the pics of the "dirt" and "soil" conditions I am dealing with. There simply is not dirt or soil that is available unless I buy it at the Wal-Mart equivalent (which I...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-03-2010, 02:43 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 5,163
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-03-2010, 08:08 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 5,163
Bananas in the Arabian desert
I am currently deployed in Qatar. I have planted two banana plants (one was a pup from the larger of the two).
To prepare their growing area, I used a pick and a shovel and dug two holes. The...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-30-2009, 02:36 PM
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Replies: 149
Views: 23,775
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Forum: Banana Identification
11-03-2008, 09:32 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,931
What kind of banana is this?
Can anyone tell me what kind of banana tree this is? It's a fast grower (up from a root ball this spring after I cut it down last fall).
Whole...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
11-01-2008, 05:56 PM
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Replies: 609
Views: 242,253
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Forum: Contests!
07-14-2008, 10:59 AM
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Replies: 122
Views: 11,478
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-14-2008, 10:54 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,487
Here's a rookie question...
Sorry for the rookie-ness of the question...
When they say a specific banana variety (basjoo, for example) is "inedible," does that mean that it tastes very bad or that it's poisonous or what...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-14-2008, 10:48 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,389
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