Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-14-2020, 09:50 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,167
Re: fertilizing
I use Miracle Gro tomato plant food (18-18-21). I mix the powder in a 1 gallon milk carton with water and water the bananas with it once a week. I've also done hydroponics which is a whole other...
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Forum: Hydroponics
07-16-2010, 05:24 PM
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Replies: 37
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Re: Hydroponic banana growers sound off
Thanks Fergus. The roots really have taken off but I read that bubble pots promote allot of root growth. I really want this thing bloom bad. I'm going to play around with nutes and us a formula...
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Forum: Hydroponics
07-16-2010, 02:37 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 19,061
Re: Hydroponic banana growers sound off
It's been a while since I've posted so I thought I'd update my fellow hydro nerds on my plant. I had about 10 ensete ventricosums in a hydroponic system, a basjoo, and a super dwarf cavendish. All...
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Forum: Member Introductions
12-21-2009, 05:39 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 4,330
Re: Hello all, new guy from Ohio.
Dan I'm from the queen city also. Grew up in Loveland near Kings Island. I'm also growing bananas hydroponically now. I had a basjoo in a waterfarm setup like yours (which works great) and I...
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Forum: Contests!
08-11-2009, 09:42 PM
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Replies: 141
Views: 27,363
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-19-2009, 11:01 AM
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Replies: 66
Views: 11,176
Re: Hydopronic Bananas
When doing my research on how to do hydroponics I read about the possibility of algae in clear containers so I spray painted the one black. I decided to keep the second one clear just to see what...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-18-2009, 08:33 PM
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Replies: 66
Views: 11,176
Hydopronic Bananas
About 3 months ago I grew a bunch of ensete ventricosums from seed. After having right around 56 germinate a few interesting characters from the hydpronic plant shop near my house talked me into...
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Forum: Banana Seed Germination Forum
07-18-2009, 07:45 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 6,749
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Forum: Species Bananas
07-18-2009, 07:31 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 9,480
Re: Musa from Home Depot. What type Musa?
It does kind of look like a basjoo but they typically have a little bit of red in the midrib which i dont really see in the pic. I can see a little bit of red in the midrib of the plant to the...
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Forum: Banana Seed Germination Forum
05-21-2009, 03:54 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 8,639
Re: Germination!!!
Nearly 2 weeks after germinating this is the result so far and it looks like more are still coming. 27 E ventricosums and still only 2 superbums (Thai) but I looked today and one more bum broke...
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Forum: Member Introductions
05-10-2009, 09:09 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,023
Re: New To The Group
I see my mom finally made it to the site. Whatch out for her shes an old cook. Love you mom!:0519:
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Forum: Banana Seed Germination Forum
05-05-2009, 12:45 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 8,639
Germination!!!
15 days After planting 100 E. Ventricosum and 100 E. Superbum (Thai) I have 2 EV and 2 bums coming up. I'm super excited and my wife thinks I'm nuts. I used 72 cell flats for both and the ones that...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-22-2009, 05:56 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 6,333
Re: Super Dwarf Cavendish Flowering picture
I just stumbled upon this thread so I felt the need to jump on the dog posing with the super dwarf cavendish band wagon :)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=16801&size=1...
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Forum: Member Introductions
04-03-2009, 08:55 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,297
Hello
New to this site and wanted to say hello to everyone. I'm also new to growing and maintaining banana plants and trees and found this site most helpful. My mother-in-law turned me on to banana...
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