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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 09-25-2021, 02:55 PM

Replies: 3 What would be best for winterizing banana plants with bananas growing? Views: 1,171 Posted By lkstapleton Re: What would be best for winterizing banana plants with bananas growing? I'm not sure if this helps you in your climate, but I am in the SF Bay Area, and we occasionally get weather in the winter that threatens or kills bananas, and certainly could freeze its fruit. One...

Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 08-16-2021, 02:18 AM

Replies: 140 The cold hardy list Views: 101,459 Posted By lkstapleton Re: The cold hardy list This list looks like one that Joe Real of Northern California posted to the California Rare Fruit Growers site about ten years ago, but I am not positive it is the exact same list.

Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 08-16-2021, 02:16 AM

Replies: 140 The cold hardy list Views: 101,459 Posted By lkstapleton Re: The cold hardy list It looks like one that Joe Real of Northern California posted to the California Rare Fruit Growers site about ten years ago, but I am not positive it is the exact same list.

Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 08-15-2021, 09:22 PM

Replies: 140 The cold hardy list Views: 101,459 Posted By lkstapleton Re: The cold hardy list My California Gold's first full-sized bananas. Previous ones were only about 4 inches long, probably because they bloomed in November rather than May.3677 Lisa:woohoonaner:

Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 06-27-2013, 01:37 PM

Replies: 39 9 months minimum?, flower to mature fruit? Views: 6,868 Posted By lkstapleton Re: 9 months minimum?, flower to mature fruit? Hi, Mark. I got into growing bananas about three years ago, so a lot of my stuff is still young. I have personally had California Gold and Dwarf Orin. flower, and I think Kandrian will flower in a...

Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 06-26-2013, 09:14 PM

Replies: 46 what are your creative cheap and resourceful sources for big pots? Views: 12,285 Posted By lkstapleton Re: what are your creative cheap and resourceful sources for big pots? I convert plastic wheeled garbage cans into pretty nice-looking HUGE containers. I like the 48-gallon and 96-gallon sizes. I spray-paint them with metallic paint (bronze and copper) and then plant...

Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 06-26-2013, 08:59 PM

Replies: 39 9 months minimum?, flower to mature fruit? Views: 6,868 Posted By lkstapleton Re: 9 months minimum?, flower to mature fruit? MV8R, since it gets into the teens, you might consider using big containers and putting them on wheels, because you might have to pull them in on your coldest nights. Lisa

Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 06-26-2013, 11:10 AM

Replies: 39 9 months minimum?, flower to mature fruit? Views: 6,868 Posted By lkstapleton Re: 9 months minimum?, flower to mature fruit? I'm in San Jose, CA. We get a few nights a year in the 20s. I wrote an article for our California Rare Fruit Growers newsletter about Veinte Cohol two years ago, after interviewing one of the...

Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 09-23-2012, 11:58 AM

Replies: 14 up the creek with half a paddle Views: 2,265 Posted By lkstapleton Re: up the creek with half a paddle I use 45-gallon and 95-gallon wheeled trashcans, painted with hammer-finished gold and copper paint to look less trashcan-like. In really bad cold freezes, I either pull them inside (which gets to...

Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-11-2012, 11:26 AM

Replies: 10 Tips and tricks for bananas to flower in containers Views: 2,779 Posted By lkstapleton Re: Tips and tricks for bananas to flower in containers You had asked what to do to get them to flower. I just got my first flower here in San Jose after two years. One of the things that I did a little differently this year was that starting in very...

Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-03-2012, 12:29 AM

Replies: 19 25 gallon Nursery pots. Views: 10,612 Posted By lkstapleton Re: 25 gallon Nursery pots. Oh, I see. That sounds like a great idea for first-floor gardening. I will have to remember that one. Right now, I am growing the "mother" plants on a second-floor balcony, and then I plant out...

Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-02-2012, 07:56 PM

Replies: 19 25 gallon Nursery pots. Views: 10,612 Posted By lkstapleton Re: 25 gallon Nursery pots. So Abnshrek, how do you make sure that when the bananas start getting big, that the whole plant doesn't tip over? I would think that might be a problem with a smaller container, when the banana...

Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-02-2012, 05:24 PM

Replies: 19 25 gallon Nursery pots. Views: 10,612 Posted By lkstapleton Re: 25 gallon Nursery pots. I have been using Rubbermaid and Toter wheeled trash cans. I usually paint them to look better, but the green Toter cans look pretty good without paint. The advantages are that you can get 45-95...

Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 07-22-2012, 10:40 PM

Replies: 8 California Gold fruiting after TWO years! Views: 1,840 Posted By lkstapleton Re: California Gold fruiting after TWO years! Maybe this is how you need to access the link to the picture: Banana Gallery - California Gold--Not quite open yet (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=49813)

Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 07-22-2012, 12:22 PM

Replies: 8 California Gold fruiting after TWO years! Views: 1,840 Posted By lkstapleton California Gold fruiting after TWO years! After two years, the California Gold that my husband bought for me for our anniversary two years ago put out a flag leaf on the 10th, then promptly put out the flower bud less than a week later! It...

Forum: Species Bananas 07-31-2011, 11:34 PM

Replies: 4 Smart Pots for Banana Views: 3,599 Posted By lkstapleton Re: Smart Pots for Banana I have mine growing in 45-gallon, wheeled trash cans. I painted the trash cans gold and copper, so they look nicer, and grow plants down the side to cover up the "Rubbermaid" logos. I also sawed...

Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 12-18-2010, 05:11 PM

Replies: 23 Protecting in-ground banana plants from cold? Views: 13,523 Posted By lkstapleton Re: Protecting in-ground banana plants from cold? I agree with the Roseville poster that here in California, it's usually the fact that we get cold, wet rain in this part of California, and that is really devastating. I pull mine in under the...

Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 07-29-2010, 11:55 AM

Replies: 28 North Carolina Banana Addicts support group Views: 6,360 Posted By lkstapleton Re: North Carolina Banana Addicts support group Well, I have about a dozen bananas here in San Jose, CA, but I have about 130 fruit-bearing plants on our 7,200-foot lot, and that's with the house, the driveway, the sidewalk, everything. It's an...

Forum: Main Banana Discussion 06-18-2010, 01:28 AM

Replies: 1,325 What did you plant today (bananas)? Views: 144,501 Posted By lkstapleton Re: What did you plant today (bananas)? I planted a Veinte Cohol (on the waiting list a year), Monkey Fingers, Kandarian, and Goldfinger. This is great! Lisa

Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 05-23-2010, 11:50 PM

Replies: 6 5-gallon Pot Views: 3,015 Posted By lkstapleton R3tic, bless your heart, you've got the typo from... R3tic, bless your heart, you've got the typo from hell, I think. I couldn't figure out what was "deviant" about going for a bigger pot, but then I figured out it must have been "definitely" and...

Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-14-2010, 05:01 PM

Replies: 18 I just saw the coolest thing on my banana plant! Views: 2,110 Posted By lkstapleton Re: I just saw the coolest thing on my banana plant! I am always a little worried about possibly having the sugar water ferment or maybe transmitting a disease, so I usually just plant lots of stuff they like. I had never seen one drink from a banana...

Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-14-2010, 08:46 AM

Replies: 18 I just saw the coolest thing on my banana plant! Views: 2,110 Posted By lkstapleton Re: I just saw the coolest thing on my banana plant! Yes, I remember reading that Anna's hummingbirds used to be mostly migratory, but in many places in California, some of them now remain year round. Best regards, Lisa

Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-13-2010, 01:09 PM

Replies: 18 I just saw the coolest thing on my banana plant! Views: 2,110 Posted By lkstapleton I just saw the coolest thing on my banana plant! I was watering my "balcony bananas," and a HUMMINGBIRD came by, checked me out by flying so close to my ear that it tickled, and then it landed on the rib of one of my wet banana leaves and started...

Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-13-2010, 08:53 AM

Replies: 25 California Gold Views: 3,613 Posted By lkstapleton Re: California Gold Last year, we paid $115. The reason that people are willing to pay so much is that it is listed as one of the most cold tolerant fruiting bananas. It seems like a lot, but our other alternative is...

Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 02-08-2010, 01:50 PM

Replies: 6 Good Article on growing Bananas in Georgia Views: 5,727 Posted By lkstapleton Re: Good Article on growing Bananas in Georgia There is also more recent research by Dr. Richard Wallace, who is near Savannah, GA. I wrote about it for our little CRFG chapter newsletter, and it's available here:...

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