Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-09-2014, 08:29 AM
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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...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-24-2014, 01:42 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,881
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-08-2013, 10:13 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,881
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...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-05-2013, 10:35 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,881
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
08-13-2013, 10:09 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 4,129
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...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-13-2013, 09:57 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,881
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-13-2013, 09:43 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,051
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...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-13-2013, 09:21 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,100
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...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-06-2013, 03:16 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,488
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...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-06-2013, 07:02 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,881
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-04-2013, 06:31 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,881
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-01-2013, 10:03 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,881
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-05-2012, 08:14 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 9,575
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
08-04-2012, 09:21 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,516
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...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-04-2012, 08:10 AM
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Replies: 67
Views: 13,013
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...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
01-19-2010, 10:00 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 6,337
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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