Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction
02-26-2024, 08:13 PM
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Re: Variegated Banana Seeds
Got my seeds today! Thank you PR-Giants very much for distributing these rare seeds to our members here. Already have mine soaking in rain water, in a insulated cooler, on a heat mat set for 88F....
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Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction
02-05-2024, 11:57 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 3,408
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Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction
01-31-2024, 09:16 AM
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Replies: 40
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Re: Variegated Banana Seeds
Oh the times in my life I have glanced a possible interesting plant while driving and turned around to investigate. But in a rear view mirror. You have me beat on that one. Very cool.
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Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction
01-26-2024, 12:49 AM
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Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer
11-20-2023, 01:12 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,461
Re: Potting pups in sand
Perlite is quite fragile and crumbles easily. Presumably under prolonged pressure it would eventually become a mass of fine particles.
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Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer
11-20-2023, 01:07 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,461
Re: Potting pups in sand
We have a lot of sand here too. It all seems so fine to me but now that I think about it, I haven't spent much time really examining it. I guess I should head to one of our beaches with a window...
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Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer
11-20-2023, 12:58 PM
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Replies: 31
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Re: Potting pups in sand
Good point - when you put it that way it seems clear to me the airspace, at least within the mixture as a whole and assuming the basketballs aren't clumped by themselves in one part of the mix, would...
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Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer
11-18-2023, 11:38 AM
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Replies: 31
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-11-2023, 10:50 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 1,664
Re: Uganda - a few pics
Unfortunately I never came across it. I had one lead but when we got there, they were all out. I think its mostly produced locally for familial use and, as far as I could tell, not produced...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-11-2023, 01:55 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 1,664
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-10-2023, 11:12 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 1,664
Uganda - a few pics
So I just returned from Uganda and while the trip wasn't about bananas, they definitely factored into my interest during our time there.
I thought I would share some of the images I was able to...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-08-2023, 09:51 AM
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Replies: 43
Views: 2,886
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Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer
09-05-2023, 08:15 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,461
Re: Potting pups in sand
For those of you struggling to find a coarse sand (I am) I found something that looks as coarse as the sand in PR Giants pictures and may be better than sand for those of us outside the tropics. It...
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Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer
09-05-2023, 07:15 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,461
Re: Potting pups in sand
it's the fines that are going to kill you. around the corm, not the roots.
you can almost drown the roots. but you have to keep the corm dry. that's the secret, that's the trick, that's what most...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-23-2023, 09:46 AM
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Replies: 43
Views: 2,886
Re: Time to separate the variegated pups
Another pic of the Florida pup from PR
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=68796&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=68796)
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
07-01-2023, 09:37 AM
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Replies: 58
Views: 5,497
Re: Variegated Cold Hardy Bananas
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=68760&limit=recent><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=68760&size=1 border=0></a>
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
07-01-2023, 09:36 AM
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Replies: 58
Views: 5,497
Re: Variegated Cold Hardy Bananas
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=68761><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=68761&size=1 border=0></a>
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
07-01-2023, 07:40 AM
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Replies: 58
Views: 5,497
Re: Variegated Cold Hardy Bananas
Yes I just planted it in the ground a few weeks ago and it's starting to grow pretty good but still pretty small. Out of this last winter that was the only banana plant that I had in a pot make it. I...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-24-2023, 08:06 AM
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Replies: 43
Views: 2,886
Re: Time to separate the variegated pups
Substrate matters, roots need to breathe moreso than i thought. The soil I used before was labeled a well draining soil but even that may not have been enough. Overwatering hard to do when the...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-24-2023, 08:03 AM
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Replies: 20
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Re: Musa Nono
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=68752&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=68752&ppuser=38070)
Welcome back :lurk:
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
06-23-2023, 06:22 AM
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Replies: 58
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Re: Variegated Cold Hardy Bananas
This little guy just popped up in my all green basjoo mat. Lucky me.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=68744&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=68744)
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-11-2023, 10:30 AM
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Replies: 43
Views: 2,886
Re: Time to separate the variegated pups
Thanks for the tips on your methods. Had to look up lechuza basicpon. The price on line was around $14.00 but it looks like good stuff. I will look for a close supplier but have never seen it before....
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-11-2023, 09:24 AM
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Replies: 43
Views: 2,886
Re: Time to separate the variegated pups
Its a florida, PR shipping is top notch, seems like he’s shipped a plant or two :ha: Its not the same substrate, its lechuza basicpon. I have drainage holes and a screen at the bottom so it doesn’t...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-11-2023, 06:28 AM
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Replies: 43
Views: 2,886
Re: Time to separate the variegated pups
Very nice growth, especially for a shipped and recovered variegate. Good on PR-Giants and yourself for keeping these rare plants going. Is it a AeAe or Florida? Did you use PR-Giants sand mix or...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-10-2023, 09:57 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 2,886
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