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Forum: Main Banana Discussion 06-09-2014, 08:29 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,295
Posted By TNAndy
Party Re: Cut it or Keep it???

OK. By my count, that's 1 vote for cutting the bloomed-out pstem and 1 vote for leaving it be.

I'd like to encourage MANY, MANY MORE responses so I can see if there is a consensus one way or the...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 04-24-2014, 01:42 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 3,881
Posted By TNAndy
Re: HOORAY!!!!! It's BLOOMING!!!!!!!!!!!!! (and some questions)

Here's my final report on the 2013 crop.

<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=55873&ppuser=6829><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=55873&size=1...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 10-08-2013, 10:13 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 3,881
Posted By TNAndy
Time for more photos

It's been another month, so it's time for more photos. This is exactly 31 days since the last pictures.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=54845&size=1...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 09-05-2013, 10:35 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 3,881
Posted By TNAndy
Re: HOORAY!!!!! It's BLOOMING!!!!!!!!!!!!! (and some questions)

Today's pictures--taken exactly one month after my previous pictures:
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=54455&size=1...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-13-2013, 10:09 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 4,129
Posted By TNAndy
Re: Perlite,sand etc.

You are likely using a rock that does not break down, like granite. When you soak granite in water, almost zero of it dissolves. This is not true of limestone. When you put limestone in water, it...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-13-2013, 09:57 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 3,881
Posted By TNAndy
Re: HOORAY!!!!! It's BLOOMING!!!!!!!!!!!!! (and some questions)

I searched my email to figure out when I bought this banana plant. It was January of 2011, so it has taken this Super Dwarf Cavendish 2-1/2 years to grow from pup to making fruit.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-13-2013, 09:43 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 2,051
Posted By TNAndy
Re: Bananas King of the Plants.

You've never tried a Dirty Banana?

Dirty Banana recipe rating 9.3/187 votes

1 oz creme de bananas
1 oz creme de cacao
1 oz KahluaŽ coffee liqueur
2 scoops vanilla ice cream

Blend six ice...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-13-2013, 09:21 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,100
Posted By TNAndy
Re: Which plant to choose?

I live in East Tennessee, in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. I have fruit growing on my Super Dwarf Cavendish. However, it is not planted in the ground. Edible bananas cannot survive the...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-06-2013, 03:16 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,488
Posted By TNAndy
Re: Are there any other....

Greetings from ZONE 6!!! I count myself lucky when all my tropical plants live through the winter inside my sunroom. Yes, I said inside.... My planters are mounted on casters.

It has taken my SDC...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-06-2013, 07:02 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 3,881
Posted By TNAndy
Re: HOORAY!!!!! It's BLOOMING!!!!!!!!!!!!! (and some questions)

On another forum they say, "Pictures or it didn't happen!" So here are some pictures:

<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=54041&ppuser=6829><img...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-04-2013, 06:31 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 3,881
Posted By TNAndy
Re: HOORAY!!!!! It's BLOOMING!!!!!!!!!!!!! (and some questions)

Because I live in Tennessee, I have to grow my bananas in a 24 inch diameter pot. All that compost you're suggesting won't fit in the container, much less break down. I'd rather do it your way, but...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-01-2013, 10:03 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 3,881
Posted By TNAndy
Joy HOORAY!!!!! It's BLOOMING!!!!!!!!!!!!! (and some questions)

After all these years of growing bananas, I've finally got a flower! Last week I saw what I suspected was a flag leaf starting to unroll right before we left for vacation. We got back last night...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-05-2012, 08:14 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 9,575
Posted By TNAndy
Re: Truly Tiny Banana --worth getting?

Newbie question: What's a "tc"?

I'm guessing that "TT" means "Truly Tiny" and that "DC" means "Dwarf Cavendish", right?
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-04-2012, 09:21 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 1,516
Posted By TNAndy
How do I encourage flowering/fruiting?

In the past I grew the Dwarf Jamaican Red variety. Unfortunately, these grew too tall for my sunroom. If I planted the pup at the right time, I could grow it for about a year and a half before it...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-04-2012, 08:10 AM
Replies: 67
Views: 13,013
Posted By TNAndy
Re: Coffee Grounds?

A couple of years ago I saw a Cordyline in flower at a garden center in Florida. I had never before seen one in bloom, so I asked the greenhouse owner what she had done. She said she poured her...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 01-19-2010, 10:00 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 6,337
Posted By TNAndy
Best Banana for Fruiting in Containers???

I bought a Dwarf Jamaican Red Banana early in 2009. It grew for about a year and a half to nearly nine feet tall, supposedly as tall as this variety gets. I harvested three pups, but the mother...
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